Lecture : PSYCH 105 Chapter 10+12 ANSWERS
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Infant determinism: first 3 years of life more influential than later experiences. Childhood fragility: children are delicate and can be easily damaged: gene-environment interaction: impact of genes on behaviour depends on environment. Nature vs. nurture: genetic predispositions drive us to particular environments. Principle source of learning: social, biological or physical experience: study of how children acquire ability to think, reason, and communicate, ass: piagetian process of absorbing new experiences into current knowledge structures. Focus on here and now unable to represent experiences mentally. Mental representation of experience but not perform operations on them.
