PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Skills
30 May 2018
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PSYC 2110 Lecture 6 Notes
Introduction
A Holistic Process
• Our survey will also provide some insight as to why no two individuals are ever exactly
alike.
• Ou sue o’t poide ases to ee ipotat uestio ou a hae aout
developing children and adolescents.
• The study of human development is still a relatively young discipline with many
unresolved issues.
• But as we proceed, it should become quite clear that developmentalists have provided
an enormous amount of very practical information about young people that can help us
to become better educators, child/adolescent practitioners, and parents.
• It was once fashionable to divide developmentalists into three camps
• Those who studied physical growth and development, including bodily changes and the
sequencing of motor skills
• Those who studied cognitive aspects of development, including perception, language,
learning, and thinking
• Those who concentrated on psychosocial aspects of development, including emotions,
personality, and the growth of interpersonal relationships
• Today we know that this classification is misleading, for researchers who work in any of
these areas have found that changes in one aspect of development have important
implications for other aspects.
• Let’s oside a eaple.
• What deteies a peso’s populait ith pees?
• If you were to say that social skills are important, you would be right.
• Social skills such as warmth, friendliness, and willingness to cooperate are
characteristics that popular children typically display.
• Yet there is much more to popularity than meets the eye.
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