PSYB32H3 Lecture : N/Ach1 notes
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Aspects of development biological, cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social. Individual and contextual factors that define and direct child development. Arnold gesell course of development was largely predetermined by biological factors: maturation: genetically determined process of growth that unfolds naturally over a period of time. John b. watson biological factors placed no restrictions on the ways that the environment can shape the course of a child s development: by properly organizing the environment, he could produce a genius or a criminal. Modern developmentalists explore how biological and environmental factors, or nature and nurture, interact to produce developmental variations in different children. Continuous process whereby each new event builds on earlier experiences; development is a smooth and gradual accumulation of abilities no abrupt shifts. Discontinuous process likens development to a series of discrete steps or stages in which behaviors get reorganized into a qualitatively new set of behaviors.
