PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Identity Crisis, Introjection, Extraversion And Introversion
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Developmental psychology is the study of human physical, cognitive, social and behavioural characteristics across the lifespan. Studying development requires special methods for measuring and tracking change over time. Development seen as a progression of abrupt transition in physical or mental skills, interspersed with slower/more gradual change. Pattern of change often referred to as series of stages: transition involves rapid shifts of thinking/behaving and fundamental shifts in types of abilities a child can perform. What accounts for rapid transitions: complex interactions between genetics and environment, occurs rapidly when individuals ready for it when they are particularly sensitive to stimulation facilitating physiological, neurological, behavioural, and cognitive development. Phases of prenatal development: germinal: 0 to 2 weeks. Migration of blastocyst from fallopian tubes and its implantation in the uterus. Cellular divisions organ, nervous system and skin tissues: embryonic: 2 to 8 weeks. Head, heart, limbs, hands and feet emerge.
