PSY 2105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Muscular System, Parallax, Learning Disability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Stuart Hammond

Document Summary

What are some risky behaviours that emerging adulthoods engage in: drugs, smoking, drinking to excess, premarital sex. What impacts could these risks have on early child development: can lead to pregnancy developmental problems for infants. Statistical prediction: used to create health warnings, inform laws and policy/usually general in nature and apply to a population. Process/mechanism: highly complex (even in experimental/controlled context) and in real-life embedded in other systems: very difficult (but in principle possible) to understand any given individual. Impact may not be all or nothing often on a spectrum. We know a lot about development in general. Systems approaches becoming more common in child psychology (cid:862)s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es orga(cid:374)ized: no single privileged cause of development (i. e. , not just genes, not just environment) Inter-linkages across areas in human system (e. g. , reaching and looking) Systems embedded in other systems (biological, psychological, cultural: lots of factors influencing each other. Heritable changes not the direct result of dna sequence changes: e. g.