PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Heredity
13 Feb 2018
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Developmental psychology examines biological, physical, psychological, and behavioral changes that occur as we age. The issues in developmental psychology are: nature and nurture. How do genes and experience guide development over our lifespan. You can be predisposed genetically but not have the proper environment to activate a gene: change and stability. In what ways do we change as we age, and in what ways do we stay the same?life requires both, stability and change. It enables us to depend on others and be concerned about children"s healthy development. Our potential for change gives us hope for a brighter future. it motivates our concern about present influences and lets us adapt and grow with experience: continuity vs. Is development a gradual change or are there some leaps to a new way of thinking or behaving. There are pre-set stages, that are age linked, to all humans go through in development.
