PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Konrad Lorenz, Critical Period, Heredity
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Individual differences differences among children in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes. How they develop can be impacted by heredity, environment, and maturation; the contexts of their lives; and normative and non-normative influences another factor is timing of variables. These maturational processes act in concert with the influences of heredity and environment. As children grow into adolescents and then into adults, individual differences in innate personal characteristics (heredity) and life experience (environment) play an increasing role as children adapt to the internal and external conditions in which they find themselves. Nuclear family 2 parents; a household unit generally consisting of one or 2 parents and their children, whether biological, adopted or stepchildren most common family unit in canada and western society. In many societies in asia, africa, and latin america, the extended family a multigenerational kinship network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and more distant relatives is the traditional family form.
