PSYC 4176 Chapter : PYSC 4176 Class 2
Document Summary
Domains in development: physical: bone growth; primary and secondary sexual changes, cognitive: thinking from concrete to abstract as aging continues, emotional and social: Periods of development: prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood. Although all psychologists don"t agree on what occurs during these stages, what they observe happens about the time that the chart says. Like a stair-step fashion: overall, it depends. Generally, it"s a slow slope of increasing ability and growth, but the breaks occur also. Continuous growth within the stages: one course of development or many, there are a lot of averages. But then you recognize that from the average, people veer in different directions. Autism, etc. : nature or nurture, it depends, autism: potentially strong biological aspect (not necessarily genetic) and there is also a environmental aspect, changing biology by doing therapy nature and nurture. Different cultures, different areas, different paths of development create different studies.
