PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Measles, Fetus, Personality Development
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Developmental psychology: the focus developmental psych is on how humans develop and change over time. Change can occur across the life span of the person. Change can be continuous or discontinuous: core developmental issues. Delineate the interacting forces of nature and nurture. Maturation: refers to biologically determined changes that follow an orderly sequence. Assess whether change is continuous or in qualitative stages: critical periods. Concept suggests that the brain is set to acquire a function during a limited period of time. If key experiences do not occur during a critical time periods, the function many not develop or may not be fully developed. The case of genie, a girl who was isolated until age of 13. Although genie made some gains in lang. , her syntax never approached normal levels. Case of genie supports a critical period for language acquisition (yet some point to her gains later in life) Measles can cause mental retardation if contracted during certain fetal periods.
