PSY BEH 111D Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Pupa
9 Aug 2017
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Why study child development: wh(cid:455) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals should stud(cid:455) (cid:272)hild de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:449)h(cid:455) it(cid:859)s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)esti(cid:374)g (cid:271)oth f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a parental perspective and from a broader societal perspective. If you think about variability, there is a fair amount of variability in child development as well. Iron deficiency in infancy long-term cognitive effects up until the time that those individuals are 19 years of age. Three primary debates: nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, early versus later experiences. Nature and nurture: a lot of psychology has focused on the influence of nature and nurture on development and human functioning, broadly defined, the interaction between nature and nurture, nature: genetics, inherited characteristics, biology, nurture: environment, context (e. g. ) How parents raise their children, schools, etc: the idea now currently in psychology is that nature and nurture is an interaction, but historically, it was the case that individuals thought one was in exclusion of the other. Initially, this was thought of as a debate: nature:
