Psychology 2040A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Bruce Morton

Document Summary

How does the sociocultural context influence development: development is influences by more than just the immediate environments (ex. family, sociocultural context: the larger social community. First book on pediatrics released widespread manuals on caring for children: 16th/17th century. Demonstrated that a description of individual differences contributed to the understanding of human development: 2. Provided the basis for more formal tests on children mental abilities. Stage like process (*key q"s: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital, believed that progression was greatly influenced by maturation, but also noticed the importance of enviro, poor envrio can lead to fixation. Theories of development: a number of major theories influences our understanding of development today. Four sets of processes are key for observational learning: attentional processes: determine what info enters mental space, memory processes: convert observations into stored representations, production processes: transform stored representations into behaviours, motivational processes: define which processes are performed.