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Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon


 

HIST 365, Winter 2004, Week 3
Outline and Key Terms

Scientific Childhood: Conceptualizing Development

1. Development: The History of an Idea

2. Normal Children as Natural Phenomena and Development as Science

3. Freud and Childhood Sexuality

4. Behaviorism and the Power of Nurture

5. The Social-Psychological Bond: The Case of Racial Identity

the human sciences (example: developmental psychology)
Darwin, On the Origins of the Species (1859)
G. Stanley Hall and recapitulation theory
polymorphous perversity
libido (sexual instinct)
conditioning
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Brown v. Board of Education, footnote #11