PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lawrence Kohlberg, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget
17 Sep 2020
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Nature vs. nurture: how our nature (genetic inheritance) interacts with out nurture (experience) in terms of our development. Researchers who emphasize learning and experience see development as a slow and continuous process. Those who emphasize biology see development through stages. Jean piaget saw physiological development as a stage process cognitive development: lawrence kohlberg moral development, erik erikson psychosocial development. Although the stage theory is not 100% accurate, it is useful. Researchers say that we experience both change and stability. Temperament is stable, but not everything in life can be predicted based on early years of life. Female releases and egg, male sperm races toward egg and 1 sperm cell attaches to the. Less than half the zygotes survive the first 2 weeks. Zygote: the fertilized egg; enters a rapid 2-week cell division and develops into an embryo. 10 days after conception, the zygote attaches to the wall of the mother"s uterine wall.
