GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Frontal Lobe, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning
5 May 2014
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Topics: definition of development, learning vs genetics, factors influencing development, questions posed by developmental psychologists, conception and prenatal development, motor development in humans, stage theory, critical periods. Theories of development: psychoanalytic, behavioural, humanistic, cognitive developmental. Pre-natal: uterine environment is critical for child development german measles (1st 3 months), smoking, drugs, and/or alcohol may result in fetal alcohol syndrome and/or retardation in the infant. Stability vs. change: are dispositions such as personality stable over one"s life or are they subject to change? (some traits do tend to be more stable than others, and some are more changeable) Behaviours at any stage are organized around a common theme or set of characteristics. Behaviours that develop at one stage are different from those that develop at other stages. All children go through the same stages in the same order but the duration of each stage can vary.
