PSY 2105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Relativism, Weaning, Lev Vygotsky

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

What is developmental psychology: the changes of behaviour and abilities across the lifespan: from conception to death, child psychology: distinctively different from developmental psychology, studying only birth to adolescnece. Goal of child developmental psychology: description and explanation of behaviour at various points (what, when, why?) Why study children: period of rapid development: easy to study. 4: children are fascinating and invite study long-term in uences: early childhood experience affect adulthood insight into complex adult processes real-world applications: laboratory sample relates to the population. Early theorists: john locke: tabula rusta - blank slate at birth. Product of their environment: jean jaques rousseau. Children are born naturally with ideas that unfold with age. Development follows a speci c set of stages. Learn through exploration and discovery: johann gottfried von herder. Everyone is born into a certain culture and grows to accept these cultures. Cultural relativism: examining and evaluating each culture on its own in affect of human development: charles darwin.