PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Falsifiability, Apoptosis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Identify some of the barriers to typical development: explain the functional significance of the nature and timing of developmental changes (reflexes, reaching, etc), describe how the environment affects the development of behaviour and mental processes (classical and operant conditioning, ecological system model, social learning theory, summarize erikson"s psychosocial development stages. Week 15 learning objectives: describe how the rouge test is used to reveal a sense of self, describe findings of animal research on sense of self, discuss how language contributes to the development of a sense of self, describe the changes in the sense of self across the course of childhood and adolescence, describe the cultural influences on the self concept, explain theory of mind and evaluate its importance for social development, define theory of mind and describe theory of mind tests, describe the precursors to theory of mind, describe the factors that contribute to the development of children"s theory of mind (siblings, executive functioning).