PSY 2114 Lecture 1: PSY2114- LECTURE 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Arne Stinchcombe

Document Summary

Human development:: multidisciplinary scienti c study of how people change and how they stay the same! The biopsychosocial framework: view that integrates the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and life-cycle forces on development ! The forces interact: none of these forces alone adequately explain the process of development, human development is the combined effects of biological, psychological, sociocultural, and life-cycle forces, each of these factors impact the others! Timing is everything: same event can have different effects depending on when it happens in a person"s life, in uence of life-cycle forces can be depicted as a uni ed spiral consisting of biological, Knowledge check: how are nature and nurture different, what are the forces that makeup the biopsychosocial forces in development, how does timing in uence development/behaviour, biological forces include genetic and health factors! Theoretical perspectives on human development: psychodynamic, learning, cognitive, ecological and systems, life-span, life course!