PSY 2114 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chorionic Villus Sampling, Spina Bifida, Prenatal Development

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Chapter 1- themes and theories of human development & research methods. Life-cycle (looks at differences in how the same event affects people of different ages) These forces must be considered in interaction. Neuroscience is so crucial in studying these interactions and understanding development. Nature can actually affect your environment: active gene-environment association: your genes/predispositions encourage you to seek out environments, evocative gene-environment association: your genes/predispositions elicit responses from others. Consider timing (critical periods) as well as what counts as environment (cid:894)b(cid:396)o(cid:374)fe(cid:374)(cid:271)(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s (cid:373)odel(cid:895) Children, influenced by nature, shape their own development: ex: infancy- selective attention, eliciting care. Develop more control over your own development over time. Continuous development: change is gradual/cumulative with small incremental or quantitative changes. Discontinuous development: change with sudden/dramatic qualitative shifts from one stage to another. Stages include qualitative change, simultaneous change in many domains, rapid transition and follow logical/coherent patterns. There are examples of both in development and it also depends on how you look at development.