PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Psychosexual Development, Juvenile Delinquency
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Explain behaviour (and then may be able to predict) Shorter (developmental is from birth to death) -- were talking about conception to pre-puberty, much more specific. Opinion: better because most of the development is from 0-2 and be able to go into depth on stuff like language development, depth perception. Today, childhood = special period of caring, teaching & protection (vs. before when children would work) Pressure, stress, sexuality, suicide, teen pregnancies, . The rate of child poverty in canada has increased from 15. 8% in 1989 to 19% in 2013. You can better understand adults if you understand children. Childhood is a period of rapid change. Complex processes are more easily understood during their formation. Social policies that improve the lives of children can be influenced by research findings. Rising: women having babies later (because of higher education, career) Distribution (in percentage) of census families by family structure, canada, 1961 to 2011. An orderly, integrated, evidence-based set of statements that.