FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Toilet Training, Yuppie, Acculturation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Hung Lee

Document Summary

Science of human development: the science that seek to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or remain the same over ime. Sudden infant death syndrome: when an infant die in there sleep. Susan beal undertook the scieniic method to understand why this was happening. Noiced that babies sleeping on their backs weren"t dying. Pediatric physicians are now telling parents to put their babies to sleep on their backs. Nature: refers to the inluence of the genes that people inherit. Nurture: refers to environmental inluences, beginning with the health and diet of the embryos mother and coninuing a lifeime, including family, school, community and society. Life span perspecive: an approach to the study of human development that takes into account all phases of life, not just childhood or adulthood (makes human development mulidirecional) Mulidirecional: muliple changes in every direcion characterize life span.