01:830:331 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parenting, Schizophrenia, Zygote
30 Oct 2014
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Chapter 1: themes and theories: nature vs. nurture, continuous vs. discontinuous development, interaction, and resilience are enduring themes in child development. Be able to give a brief example of each. Is it more important that someone is genetically predisposed to do something, or is it something in their environment that causes them to do something. Example: whether boys are more aggressive than girls based on either cultural conditioning or biological factors. Important: children are active players in the process of their own development. Ex: eye color, hair color (within your dna) What is nature: biological traits inherited from parents. What is nurture: everything else: how you were reared as a child, # of siblings, etc. (things that affect you in some way outside of whatever genetic information you receive from your parents) Intelligence can be from nature, but also has a nurture component because of schooling and social interaction.
