PSYC 2500H Midterm: PSYC2500 Midterm Lecture Review
8 Feb 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Key issues in child development: babies are born small and relatively defenseless, spend most of their early time eating and sleeping. In the first few months of life, baby"s development is slow but accelerates in later months. What is human development: according to text. Systematic continuities and changes in an individual that occur between conception and death. (pg. Developmental psychology: discipline concerned with the scientific study of changes in human behaviors and mental activities as they occur over a lifetime. What causes us to develop (nature vs nurture: maturation, heredity influences on aging process, biology, learning, change in behavior due to experience, permanent or long lasting change, environmental. Developmental patterns: normative, typical of the group. Character of development: a continual & cumulative process, a holistic approach, plasticity, ability and capacity to change, historical/cultural context. Is development universal: look for not just similarities but differences. Fundamental issues in developmental theories: nature vs nurture, nature, nurture.
