EDUC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Operant Conditioning, Participant Observation, Behaviour Therapy
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What is development ? relatively enduring growth and change that makes an individual better adapted to the envt, by enhancing the individual"s ability to engage in, understand, and experience more complex behavior, thinking, and emotions. Information obtained through systematic observations and experiments, and is used to make the information acquired more reliable. The text divides development into 3 large domains. What are the 5 guiding principles of development described in the text: development results from the constant interplay of biology and the environment, development occurs in a multilayered context. Children are affected by social, parents, society: development is a dynamic, reciprocal process. Actively shape their own development by selecting the context they participate, imposing their subjective appraisal, and affecting what take place in the context: development is cumulative- builds on itself, development occurs throughout lifespan. Describe some of the theories of development and how they relate to innate and/or environmental influence.
