[PSYC 156] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (70 pages long)
Document Summary
Infant cog. abilities: experiment: babies look longer at impossible events- such as a ball rolling past a wall (act surprised) Genes affect specific types of cells based on if they are turned on or not. Kids raised in orphanage can be rectified with good environment after. With the chart of good, bad environment and good, bad genes (used by piaget) Process where genes, environment and everything that has every been in environment shape you. Events that happened early on in dev tend to affect you more than effects: difference between interactionist and transactional later in dev. In the interactionist model-genes came into world with the environment right. Cant do things alone: could be environmental (learns about self) or innate (temperament) Can appear stage like, but more like continuity because you look at early environment. Domain general vs. domain specific: domain specific. Criticism: not really categorical distinction- autism has a wide range of impairments.
