PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: B. F. Skinner, Ethnography, Albert Bandura
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The field of child development focuses on the scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Developmental scientists look at ways in which children change from conception through adolescence, as well as at characteristics that remain fairly stable. The study of child development is part of the broader study of human development, which covers the entire human lifespan from conception to death. The study of children development is organized around periods and domains of development. Child development: the scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Division of the lifespan into periods of development is a social construction: an idea that is generally accepted to be real by a particular culture or society. We follow a social construction about human development as a sequence of five periods, generally accepted in western industrial societies.
