PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Habituation, Object Permanence, Jean Piaget

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Developmental psychology examines physical, cognitive, and social development across the. Issues in developmental psychology: nature vs. nurture. Are we born a certain way or are we formed by our environment and experiences: continuity vs. stages. Some aspects of development are gradual and continuous. Other aspects change abruptly in stages: stability vs. change. An extreme view on stages is that psychological development occurs in a series of abrupt, age-linked stages: analogy caterpillar butterfly, development crawl walk. Most psychologists have a more modest view that while stages do occur, there is not necessarily that element of abruptness: serial development tends to happen in order. E. g. , reading can"t happen until letter-sound correspondence is understood: age-linking flexible and experience-dependent. E. g. , reading age depends on when letter-sound correspondence is taught: abruptness people assume that once babies learn to walk, for example, they will no longer crawl. This is not necessarily correct; old mistakes might still happen, but with much less frequency.