PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Dependent And Independent Variables, Natural Experiment
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Child development: a sub-area of the discipline of developmental psychology; identifies changes in the child"s cognitive, emotional, motor and social capacities; help uncover the processes that underlie these changes. Sureka m: origins of human behavior, the pattern of developmental change over time, the individual and contextual factors that define and direct child development, origins of human behavior. Arnold gesell (1928): believed course of development was largely predertmined by biological factors: focused on maturation. Continuity: some view development as a continuous process with no abrupt changes from one to the next, rather all new events build on each other. Discontinuity: some view as a series of discrete steps where behaviours get reorganized into new sets of behaviours, forces that affect developmental change. Example: children with aggressive personality traits may often seek out contexts in which they can display these characteristics; joining karate instead of chess. Help organize and integrate existing information into coherent and interesting accounts of how children develop.
