PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Internal Validity, Participant Observation
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Child development: scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Provide solutions for many questions that parents are desperate to have answers to: choosing social policies. Make informed laws and policies to help all children: understanding human nature. Social construction: concept or practice that is an invention of a particular culture or society, example: division of the life span into periods of development. Physical development: growth of body and brain, including biological and physiological patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. Cognitive development: pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Psychosocial development: pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships. Timing of influences: critical or sensitive periods. Heredity: genetics passed on from your parents. A household unit consisting of one or two parents and their children; biological, adopted or step-children.
