PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Longitudinal Study, Time Point, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
12 Mar 2018
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Infant determinism- assumption that extremely early experiences are more than influential in our development than later experiences: actually, experience shapes us throughout development, childhood fragility- Gene expression- someone might have a specific gene that makes them vulnerable to a specific behaviour, that activates that gene to happen. Schizophrenia example: around the 20s, it is almost the most difficult time for people which predisposes people who may get schizophrenia. Preoperational stage: 2 to 7 years, able to construct mental representation of experiences, but unable to perform mental transformations or operations. Concrete operational stage: 7 to 11 years, can perform mental operations for actual physical events, can perform conservation tasks, still poor at performing mental operations in abstract situations (need physical experience) Innate knowledge- argue that some children come into the world with a general knowledge or nature of the world itself.
