Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Rubella

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Developmental psychologists study how people grow and change over the lifespan. Many study socialization, the process by which children learn the rules and behavioural society expects of them. However, many psycholinguists no longer believe there is a universal grammar, because languages also vary around the world. Parental practices, such as recasting a child"s incorrect sentences, also aid in the langue acquisition. Infants are responsive to pitch, intensity, and sound of language, which may be why adults in many cultures speak to babies in parentese, using higher pitched words and exaggerated intonation of vowels. Children"s thinking changes and adapts through assimilation and accommodation. Piaget implied; development is more continuous and overlapping. Babies and younger children have greater cognitive abilities, at earlier ages, than. Piaget thought, perhaps because of core knowledge" they are born with. Young children are not always egocentric in their thinking.