HSS 4102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anal Stage, Genital Stage, Jean Piaget
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Hss4102 lecture 4 - stages of development. Development: there is overlap between different areas, biology, psychology, social, continuity, change, quantitative. In humans: height and weight: qualitative not easy to measure. Learning how to read. a small child is not able to read, and a older child might be able to read. dependent or independent from parents. language. The ability to speak when you"re older, but infants can"t speak. vocabulary grammar. Critical periods in fetal development: most changes are quantitative, but for example the development of the senses are qualitative. Youtube video: the wild child of the aveyron: there is a time in our lives for learning certain skills: if that period is missed, the ability to learn those skills fully might be missed. As is illustrated by the wild child of aveyron or. Genie: not being able to speak, problems learning social interactions, etc, there is a critical period in development for different abilities.