[PSY-B 310] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 20 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Goals: goals of psychology ages, describe, predict, explain, change physical, social and cognitive development, developmental theories do this in systematic ways, complex ; no one theory, focus. Human development = multidisciplinary study of how people change and how they remain the same over time. Nature vs nurture: the degree to which genetic or hereditary influences (nature) and experimental or environmental influences (nurture) determine the kind of person you are. Universal and context-specific issue: whether there is one path of development or several. This view sees differences in development are simply variations on a fundamental developmental process. Alternative view sees differences among people are not simply variations on a theme, but argue human development is inextricably intertwined with the context in which it occurs. A persons development is a product of complex interaction with the environment and the interaction is not fundamentally the same in all environments.
