PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias, Software Development Process, Young Life
8 Jan 2017
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Poor self-regulation child eats marshmallow even if told not to: overarching themes (1. 3 in textbook, cute, helpless, directionality of development we get more complex as we age however we can also go to something less. Synaptic pruning needed to have good cognitive development and failure of sp can lead to autism disorders: continuity vs discontinuity of development. Continuous development a tree that grows you add on more and more knowledge as you develop (by having experiences: quantitative changes, nurture perspective. Discontinuous development life cycle of a monarch butterfly: qualitative changes (who and what you are, biology is the primary mover of this development, nature perspective. We now think that we develop continuously and discontinuously but there is more evidence for continuous: early development is related to later development but not perfectly, roles of nature (biology) and nurture (environment) in development. Culture treats men and women based on biology. However, environment can change how are genes are expressed.
