CD 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.3: Developmental Science

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Child Development
• Course: CD 305
• Professor: Marta Block

Document Summary

Four fundamental issues: sources of development, plasticity, continuity/discontinuity, individual differences. Questions about the sources of development: nature v. nurture. In uences of the social and cultural environment: the wild boy highlighted the two, nature and nurture can not be looked at alone but wondered together and seen how the two react. A period of growth during which a speci c kind of experience must occur for a particular ability or behavior to develop: there is only a high degree of plasticity during that window. Example: chicks when they imprint: also there are sensitive periods. A time in an organisms development when a particular experiences has an. Sunday, april 2, 2017 especially profound effect: example: child learning a language. Plasticity answers whether a child"s development can be modi ed through deliberate intervention. Stages of development are distinguished by qualitative changes. The transitions from one stage to the next is marked by simultaneous changes in a many domains of the child"s development.