PSYCH 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preformationism, Egg Cell, Smart Device
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The act or process of change over time. The idea that we change over time with cognitive abilities. It is argued that change over time happens in a very continuous way: a tree growing (for example) This contrasts a discontinuous view: example- metamorphosis. When a butterfly emerges from a cocoon, it is so different from when it was a caterpillar: in terms of cognitive development, discontinuous change over time happens in shifts. The view that an organism, in some sense, is preformed from origination, and that development is mere growth, unfolding and solidification of a miniature being into adult form. Spermists: one who believed that the complete human being was contained in the sperm rather than the ovum. Ovists: one who believed that the complete human being was contained in the ovum rather than the sperm. A process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties.
