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اسلاید 1 :
- A field of psychology that focuses on development across the life span.
- Development
–More-or-less predictable changes in behavior associated with increasing age
- Nature or nurture?
–Nature: behavior unfolds like a plant over time
–Nurture: behavior is molded by experiences
اسلاید 2 :
Heritability Estimates – The proportion of the total variance in a trait that is attributable to genetic variation within a group.
اسلاید 3 :
Intelligence: .70
Neuroticism: .55
Depression: .44
Doing Crosswords: .55
Liking Sweets: .65
Playing Chess: .62
اسلاید 4 :
- Maturation
–Biological process of systematic physical growth
–Experience plays a role in specific contexts
–McGraw’s study of toilet training twins
- Children change dramatically from birth to adulthood
اسلاید 5 :
- Imprinting (Lorenz)
–Inborn tendency or instinct
–Sensitive period – critical period
- Early social deprivation
–Harlow’s monkeys, social isolation, and continuing detrimental effects
–Controversy over effects on children
- Some abnormal effects may be irreversible
اسلاید 6 :
- Normal for children to be variable in their development
–Discontinuities in development are the rule
–Parents make important decisions about raising children that impacts on development
- Impact of technology and medicine
اسلاید 7 :
- Stages – series of abrupt changes from one period to another –
–All children must pass through in same order
–More qualitative than quantitative (such as child mastering physical properties of object)
اسلاید 8 :
- Identified 4 stages of cognitive development
–Sensorimotor stage – infant experiences world in sensory information and motor activities
–Preoperational stage – children sometimes think illogically by adult standards
–Concrete operational stage – increased abilities
–Formal operational stage – use of full adult logic
اسلاید 9 :
- Moral development
–Three level, six stage theory
–Premoral level – child has no sense of morality as adults understand it
–Child’s moral view based on what others think until highest level of development creates independent thinking
اسلاید 10 :
- Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
–Focuses on the individual’s developing relationships with others in social world
–Eight stages - development continues over life span
–Crisis at each stage of development
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