[PSY210H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (62 pages long)
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2016-01-31 4:40 pm: biosocial includes biology, neuroscience and medicine, cognitive includes psychology, linguistics and education, psychosocial includes economics, sociology and history. Childhood and adulthood: early malnutrition can stunt brain growth and have long-lasting effects far worse than those of later malnutrition. Difference of deficit: difference-equals-deficit error people tend to observe differences and then conclude that people are inferior if they are unlike the observer. Finding the balance: developmental conclusions should never be contextually naked variations is background and circumstances should always be considered. Ecological systems: urie bronfenbrenner ecological-system approach in understanding humans, there are three nested levels of factors that surround individuals: Microsystems immediate surroundings such as family and peers and that each microsystem creates an impact depending on timing. Exosystems local institutions such as schools and church. Plasticity: human traits can be moulded and yet people maintain a certain durability, dynamic-systems approach human development is an on-going, ever-changing interaction between the individual and all the systems described above.
