Psychology Notes
Chapter 1 – Human Development
Categories of culture, race, and ethnicity are fluid, continuously shaped and redefined by social and political forces.
Cognitive Development
• Pattern of change in the mental abilities such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
Cohort
• A group of people born at about the same time.
Critical period
• A specific time when a given event or its absence, had a specific impact on development.
Culture
• A society’s or group’s total way of life, including customs, traditions, beliefs, values, language, and physical products-all learned behavior passed on from parents to children.
Developmental Scientists Study?
• Change and stability in all domains of development throughout the life span
Domains of Development
• Development lists study processes of change and stability in all domains, or aspects of development throughout all periods of the life span.
• Physical, cognitive, psychosocial. Each affects the others
Environment
• The totality of nonhereditary or experiential, influences on development.
Ethnic gloss
• An overgeneralization that obscures or blurs such variation (term such as Black or Hispanic).
Ethnic group
• A group united by ancestry, race, religion, language, or national origins which contribute to a sense of shared identity and shared attitudes, beliefs, and values.
Ethnicity and cultural patterns
• Affect development by their influence on the composition of a household, it economic and social resources, the way its members act toward one another, the foods they eat, the games children play, the way they learn, how well they do in school, the occupations adults engage in, and the way family members think and perceive the world.
Extended Family
• Multigenerational network of grandparents, uncles, cousins and more distant relatives who often share breadwinning and child rearing responsibilities and the older children are responsible for younger brothers and
Categories of culture, race, and ethnicity are fluid, continuously shaped and redefined by social and political forces.
Cognitive Development
• Pattern of change in the mental abilities such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
Cohort
• A group of people born at about the same time.
Critical period
• A specific time when a given event or its absence, had a specific impact on development.
Culture
• A society’s or group’s total way of life, including customs, traditions, beliefs, values, language, and physical products-all learned behavior passed on from parents to children.
Developmental Scientists Study?
• Change and stability in all domains of development throughout the life span
Domains of Development
• Development lists study processes of change and stability in all domains, or aspects of development throughout all periods of the life span.
• Physical, cognitive, psychosocial. Each affects the others
Environment
• The totality of nonhereditary or experiential, influences on development.
Ethnic gloss
• An overgeneralization that obscures or blurs such variation (term such as Black or Hispanic).
Ethnic group
• A group united by ancestry, race, religion, language, or national origins which contribute to a sense of shared identity and shared attitudes, beliefs, and values.
Ethnicity and cultural patterns
• Affect development by their influence on the composition of a household, it economic and social resources, the way its members act toward one another, the foods they eat, the games children play, the way they learn, how well they do in school, the occupations adults engage in, and the way family members think and perceive the world.
Extended Family
• Multigenerational network of grandparents, uncles, cousins and more distant relatives who often share breadwinning and child rearing responsibilities and the older children are responsible for younger brothers and