PSY302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Psychology, Methylation, Epigenetics
12 May 2016
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The study of systematic changes and continuities in an individual that occur between conception and death. Maturation: biological development that follows lines laid down by heredity/genes, e. g. brain maturity. Describe behaviour, focusing on typical patterns of change: normative and ideographic development (variations from the norm: normative: cultural, ideographic: abused, raised with strict guidelines. Why do children develop this way at this age, etc. Know psychological and physical health and the patient as a holistic being. Choosing social policies: e. g. in the us, gov"t deciding on laws for teenagers to work for long hours. Continual and cumulative process: we are now impart due to childhood, who we are now will have an effect on our future self. Holistic process: cognitive, behavioural, psychological, etc. seen as a whole, change in one will affect all. Plasticity: capacity for change in response to positive and negative life experiences, horrible starts to life can be helped to overcome deficiencies.
