PSY-PC 1250 Lecture 1: PSY-PC 1250 Lecture : dvpsy Test 1 Lecture Notes
18 Jan 2019
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Social-emotional: agency- power to influence own life, resilience- positive response to challenges. Cognitive: metacognition, declarative- questioning framing of world and others, procedural- reflecting on actions. How is the brain wired: most neurons placed @ birth but few connections (synapses) @ birth, early life (0-3 years) brain adds 40,000 synapses a day, so toddlers have about. 1000 trillion synapses: brain overproduces wildly and then whichever synapses actually stay but the others are pruned" off by adolescence discard of all synapses. Theory- a broad framework or set of principles that can be used to guide the collection and interpretation of a set of facts. Explicit theories are important because it helps predict outcomes, broadens perspectives and incite healthy debate. How are species wide genes important to development/ Abrupt and dramatic periods of rapid change. How and when in development: discontinuous (qualitative, stage like, continuous (quantitative) Ability to understand the transformation- keeps in mind what stays the same and what changes.
