PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Autism Spectrum, Konrad Lorenz, Lev Vygotsky

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Peter Frecknall

Document Summary

Examines our physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span, with a focus on three major issues: nature and nurture (chapter 4, continuity and stages. Researchers who emphasize experience and learning see development as a slow, continuous shaping process. Those who emphasize biological maturation tend to see development as a sequence of genetically predisposed stages or steps: everyone passes through the stages in the same order. Jean piaget on cognitive development, lawrence kholberg on moral development, and erik erikson on psychosocial development propose mental stages: stability and change. Stability provides our identity and enables us to depend on others and be concerned with children"s health development: social attitudes are not as stable/ consistent. Learn new ways of coping: experience both but some of our characteristics, such as temperament, are very stable. As people grow older, personality gradually stabilizes. Change gives us hope for a brighter future and motivates our concerns about present influences: change with age.