PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Information Processing Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, B. F. Skinner
12 Jan 2017
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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. Neuroscience= the study of the brain and nervous system especially in terms of brain-behavior relationships: applied to issues such as memory, reasoning and emotion.
