Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture Notes - Advantageous, Empiricism, The Blank Slate
20 Mar 2019
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Developmental psychology: the scientific study of age-related changes in our bodies, behaviour, thinking, emotions, social relationships, and personalities. Most theories about human development have come from observing people at different ages. These observations continue to influence our understanding of human development: the only constant is change . Different historical beliefs: philosophical approaches to development. Early philosophers approached the problem as one of determining whether internal factors (ex. intelligencer) or external factors (ex. family environment) make a person good or bad. There are 3 ideas about the interaction of internal and external factors that have been important in the. You have no say where you are born or how you are raised (no say what happens to you at a young age b/c you are not self-sufficient yet) Blank slate: studies with identical twins where they are separated at birth and put into different environments show that environment plays a huge role despite having identical genetics.
