PSYCH 355- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)

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The environment directs development and trains individuals how to behave. State theories that postulate that development proceeds in an orderly step-wise fashion. Development occurs through a continuous dynamic interaction between the child and the experience provided by the social context. These principles in theory guide our societal decisions and are pervasively woven into the fabric of our culture. People change as so do their ecological contexts: exosystem and macrosystem effects, exosystem and macrosystems while remote from the individual, have a profound effect on an individual(cid:859)s (cid:271)ehavior, the physical environment also affects social ecology. 13, middle adolescence as 14-17, late adolescence as 18-22. The uniqueness of adolescence: developmental progression occurs more rapidly in adolescents than in adults. Puberty and physiological development during adolescence: there are several major physiological changes that occur during adolescence, development of both primary and secondary sexual characteristics.