Developmental Issues and Methods – PSYC2061 Week One – Lecture One - Aims o To introduce the major questions/themes that interest developmental psychologists o To illustrate common research designs that are used to answer questions about development o What is developmental psychology? o Developmental psychologists seek to describe (what‚ when: rapid change in skills‚ how) and explain (why: that development and mechanism has occurred) the changes that occur across the life span. o Apply
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Developmental Psychology Reading Notes Pages 260-230 -children go from knowing no lang in the first year to producing and comprehending complex constructions in their 3rd year -language is a that emerges is a natural language that refers to any lang spoken on a daily basis by a community -acquiring lang is so common it isn’t thought of as a crazy achievement -change in lang and change in how others speak to them -do certain langs guide certain thoughts? -Generativity= producing
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Developmental psychology is the chapter of mental processes and learning of how people nurture and change over the course of a lifetime. “The changes started with newborns and children‚ it prolonged to include teenage years‚ adult development‚ ageing‚ and the entire life expectation.” (Bennett‚ 2010) The theories of human development research examines change through a wide-ranging variety of issues including motor skills and other psychophysiological processes; cognitive development involving areas
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that these six areas of learning do not work in isolation but are in fact interlinked. Good quality activities will cover more than one area of development. For example‚ allowing children to access the outdoors will not only support their physical development‚ but encourage their communication and exploration of their environment. Where a child experiences a delay in one area‚ it is likely to limit their learning and development in the other five...a child with cerebral palsy who experiences hand-eye
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BRONFENBRENNER’S ECOLOGICAL THEYORY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Urie Bronfenbrenner was a psychologist who was born in 1917‚ and he was regarded as one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of developmental psychology. His ecological systems theory holds that development reflects the influence of several environmental systems‚ and it identifies five environmental systems with which an individual interacts. He analyzed four types of systems that aid in human development‚ they include the microsystem
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In some ways adolescents resemble the children they were‚ yet the many changes they undergo during this stage ensure that they will be different from children in many respects. Similarly‚ we see glimpses of the adults the adolescents will come‚ but more often we observe that they don’t behave like adults. As adolescents mature‚ we see fewer resemblances to children and more similarities to adults. Adolescents’ psychology is the study of physical‚ cognitive‚ personality‚ and social development
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Developmental Psychology Step parenting‚ is it for you? With stepfamilies becoming a large part of the population here in the United States and all over the world‚ you would think we would have more understanding on how to be a good stepparent. Knowing what role one will have to play when becoming a stepparent can be very difficult for all parties involved. Raising your own biological children is hard enough; now throw a few stepchildren into the mix and all hell breaks loose. Not literally
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Developmental Psychology Developmental Psychology • The study of physical‚ cognitive‚ and social changes throughout the life cycle. Three Major Problems • Nature/Nurture: How do genetic inheritance (our nature) and experience (the nurture we receive) influence our development? • Continuity/Stages: Is development a gradual‚ continuous process like riding an escalator or does it proceed through a sequence of separate stages‚ like climbing rungs on a ladder? • Stability/Change:
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3 STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 8 STUDY GUIDE (Define/describe all terms) 1. Developmental psychology - know how to apply the definition 2. Assimilation 3. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development (including stages – see chart on pg. 251). Pay special attention to object permanence and the stage it occurs in. 4. Personal fable 5. Naïve idealism 6. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development (including levels – see chart on pg. 254) Know how to apply this theory to real-life situations! 7. Erikson’s
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Developmental Psychology Notes Examines how people are continually developing- physically‚ cognitively‚ and socially – from infancy through old age. Nature and Nurture: how do genetic inheritance and experience influence our development? Should always be in the back of your head during this unit. Are you who you are because of the way you were born or because of the way you were raised? Continuity and stages: is development a gradual‚ continuous process like riding an escalator‚ or does it proceed
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