PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Object Permanence, Procedural Knowledge, Memory Span
21 Mar 2016
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Not tested on guest lectures; 30 multiple choice (5 from each chapter), 4 short answer. Chapter 1 - the science of child development. And successive (they are predictable, ex. learning to crawl and talk) Multi-faceted (what age does a baby start to crawl, developmental milestones) What happens? (what happens when a child grows up) Why does it happen? (why can some 5 year olds read and some can"t) Qualitative (a 12 year has a better understanding of communication than a 6 year old: continuity vs discontinuity. Weather we expect a child is going to be influenced by the environment, continuous development over time or an disruption in that: nature vs nurture. Home, school, peer group, community, culture, era: cultural universal vs cultural specificity. Two additional themes (from textbook: active vs passive (behaviours that reoccurs, development in different domains is connected.
