PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Habituation, Agreeableness, Operant Conditioning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

Document Summary

Human development: age-related changes from conception to death. Is human development continuous or discontinuous: gradual changes or step changes, many different developmental paths. One path or many: unique combinations of: genetics & environment, can result in many different developmental paths. Nature vs: trying to understand those aspects of us that are inborn, based on genetic inheritance. Nurture: those things that come about based on the physical and social world we come about, influence on biological and psychological development. Stable vs: individuals high or low in a characteristic remain so. Plasticity: change may be possible based on experience, fundamental changes may occur over the course of our lives. Emerging adulthood: most textbooks would have identified different stages of life, today we identify 18-25 years: extension of some of the aspects of adolescence but going further on into our chronological lives. Prenatal from the moment of conception to birth. Male testes: 300 million sperm a day.