PSYO 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carol Dweck, Critical Period, Kipsigis People
13 Jan 2017
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Lifespan perspective: 3 key factors to keep in mind, plasticity every period of life contains potential for growth and decline in abilities in response to the environment. Interdisciplinary research from multiple related disciplines is necessary to fully understand lifespan development: multi-contextual individuals develop within several interrelated contexts, nature vs nurture , vulnerabilities and protective factors interact with the child"s environment. Not all children with talent will be successful in academia, not all children without talent will be unsuccessful in academia. Video suggestion ted talk, carol dweck: the power of believing that you can improve. Continuity vs discontinuity: does development involve gradual, cumulative change continuity, or distinct stages discontinuity, consider changes applicable to individuals taking university courses, 3 kinds of change. Normative age-graded changes: common to every individual in a species and linked to specific ages: e. g. walking for the first time. Super (1976): kipsigis people of kenya train infants to sit up, stand and walk soon after birth.
