PSYCHOLOGY Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cytosine, Ethology, Infant
26 Nov 2021
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As children, each one of us has traveled through some common paths. Each of us walked at about the age of 1, talked at about the age of 2, engaged in fantasy play as a young child and become more independent as an adolescent. When we speak of development, we mean a pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. It refers to those changes in performance that are influenced by maturational processes. Development involves growth; it is the quantitative changes that occur over time in the human as to changes in height, weight, and physical characteristics. It has qualitative changes too that is related to organizational and process change and this is considered as maturation. The pattern of change is complete because it has several processes namely; biological, cognitive and socio-emotional. Human development involves changes in an individual"s physical nature.
