EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Prodigy, Pubic Hair, Cognitive Architecture
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Development: refers to the orderly, adaptive changes we go through from conception to death. Social development-changes in the ways we relate to others. 1. people develop at different rates (keep in mind that there are individual differences. not everyone will learn to read by age 6. ) 2. development is relatively orderly. (some abilities develop quite consistently before other abilities. ex: heart develops before the limbs, gums before nasal passages. : development takes place gradually. (most abilities takes time to emerge) 4. development occurs at different rates/times in different parts of the organism. ex: tremendous growth in first year. Reason for head start programs: there are sex differences (not absolute, but they are tendencies or prinicples. up to age 11 boys are taller and heaver, but after age 11 the girls catch up and get taller. Girls tend to become more linguistically in depth at a younger age, due to brain lateralization.
