PSYC 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Attention, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
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Outline: the nature of life-span development, issues in human development, theories of development. The nature of development: systematic changes in a person from the moment of conception to the moment of death. Is life-long: multi-directional, contextual, normative age-graded influences (sociocultural, normative history-graded influences. Happen to everyone of a certain age. Happen to everyone of a certain generation. Time in history in which you grew up (history-graded): ww2, depression, War-time diet (biological), political attitudes (psychological), technology (sociocultural: non-normative influences. Non-normative influences: car accident (biological), death of a parent (psychological), winning the lottery (sociocultural) Socioemotional processes = intrapersonal and inter-personal changes. *even though we talk about them separately, they are all happening at the same time. Periods of development: based on common developmental tasks. Ability to adapt to change: social age. Theories of human development: no single theory explains it all. Each makes different assumptions about the nature of human development. Issues in development: good or bad: original sin (hobbes)
