EDUC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lev Vygotsky, Not Fair, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood
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Relatively enduring growth and changes makes the individual better adapted to the environment, by enhancing the individual"s ability to engage in, understand, and experience more complex behavior, thinking and emotions. Helps you get along better in your world. Moth population changed/adapted due to pollution and environmental changes. When the environment restores itself, the white moth will come back. Human development can be understood by understanding human evolution. Development of large brain contributes to culture and environmental expansion. Enduring tensions in the field of human development. Continuous (quantitative) vs discontinuous (qualitative) change vs something entirely different. Scientific theories have been around for a short time (only about 120 yrs) Individual is affected by his microsystems (immediate environment) Development is not just happening in isolation, every aspect of their development is nested in these different environments. Parents at school for parent teacher conference and decide to read with child.
