HDFS 21000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Psychology, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Paul Baltes

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Human Dev & Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 21000
• Professor: Zoe Taylor

Document Summary

Theories of development: theory: an organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development, perspectives: What is the purpose of theories: ground and guide research. Recurring issues: nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, universal and context-speci c. Nature-nurture debate (biology vs. environment: some argue its heredity- the transmission of genetic characteristics from the parents to children, others suggest the social environment determines development. Nature and nurture: most social scientists agree that humans are shaped by an interaction of biological predispositions and environmental in uences. Both are: universal development- normative developments that all individuals display, context-speci c development- developmental outcomes that vary from person to person. How well do people resolve con icts at different ages: psychosocial/psychoanalytic theory (freud/erikson, behavioral theory. How does social learning in uence a persons behavior: behaviorism (watson/skinner, social learning theory (bandura, cognitive developmental theory. How does it change: piaget, information processing theory, cognitive neuroscience approach, humanistic perspective.