Locke's Tabula Rasa
Rousseau’s “Savages"
Darwin’s “Fittest”
Normative Approach
Mental Testing
100

Praise not punishment

What type of parenting did he support?

100

Savages

What did he consider children?

100

Children's needs

What should parents be sensitive to?

100

What did intelligence mean to him?

Good judgment, planning, and critical reflection

200

Environment, treatment and education

How can the child be improved?

200

Sense of right and wrong

What did they already come with?

200

Using questionnaires, parent interviews, and observations

How did they get their data?

200

Intelligent test

What did he construct the first successful of?

300

Rational tutors

What did he believe was the role of the parents?

300

Corrupt by adults

The built in moral sense is corrupted by what?

300

Attempts at observation

Where did this theory get its scientific child study?

300

A genetically determined process that unfolds automatically

What did he believe development was?

300

Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale

What was his creation called?

400

Continuous development

What does it mean to grow smoothly and over time?

400

Discontinuous

What does it mean to revolve around stages in child's development?

400

Physical characteristics and behavior

What adaptive value did he put an emphasis on?

400

Motor achievements, social behaviors, and personality characteristics

What information did they gather?

400

Three

How many categories were in the test
500

Tabula rasa

What was it called when a child is a blank slate?

500

12

At what age did children are capable of true reasoning.

500

Survival of the fittest

What does it mean when certain species survive because of the ability to adapt to their surroundings?

500

make child study information useful for parents

What was this the first to do?

500

Individual differences in development, particularly in the nature/nurture controversy

What did he spark tremendous interest in?