PSY 1101 Lecture 8: PSY chapter notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Eleanor Riesen

Document Summary

Continuity vs. discontinuity: concerns whether a particular developmental phenomenon represents a smooth progression throughout life or a series of abrupt shifts. Context specific development: whether there is just one path of development or several: view that there is only one fundamental developmental process for everyone, differences in development simply variations on fundamental developmental process ex. Diff brands of cars: view that human development inextricably intertwined within context with (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h it o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)s, pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)t of (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith environment, which is not fundamentally same in all environments. Each factor impacts the others: biological forces: all genetic and health related factors that affect development. Prenatal development, brain maturation, puberty, menopause, face wrinkling. Collectively provide raw material, genetics, for development: psychological forces: all internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality factors that affect development, socio-cultural forces: include interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors that affect development.