PSYC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Moral Development, Parenting Styles, Child Discipline
12 Jan 2016
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They"re both interactive forces that are necessary for human development; influence environment; a childs development level reflects heredity, difficult, slow to warm up children including diseases, drugs, and radiation as well as a mothers diet, health. During sensitive periods in development, infants are more sensitive to effects of the childs own behavior. Prenatal development is influenced by environmental factors such as various enrichment of the environment has a beneficial effect on infants. Temperament is hereditary; most infants fall into 1 of 3 temperament influences. Early perceptual, intellectual or emotional deprivation retards development care givers can only environment and the teratogens and emotions specific environmental whereas deliberate categories: easy children, Developmental psychology: the study of progressive changes in behaviour and abilities from conception to death. Heredity ( nature ): the transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parents to offspring through genes. Dna: a molecular structure that contains coded genetic information.
