PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parenting Styles, Prefrontal Cortex, Deductive Reasoning
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Focuses on the physiological, cognitive, and social changes that occur in individuals across the ligespan. Strong, emotional connection that persists over time and across circumstances adaptive. Results contradicted the behaviourist perspective and had widespread societal implications. Research raised a lot of ethical questions approx. Upset when caregiver leaves, but easily comforted upon their return. Rules & structure (high expectations) but also high responsive to the child. Important to consider social and cultural influences on development. Every "stage" of identity features a developmental challenge that must be confronted in order to successfully progress. Evaluated every 2 years new schemas: ways of perceiving, organizing, and thinking about how the world works. Adapting or expanding a schema to include new experiences which don"t fit into an exisiting one. Active self-regulatory process by which a child progresses through the stages of development. Acquiring information only through the senses the kinds of actions that can be performed on certain objects.
