DEP-3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Industrial Revolution, Hans Moravec
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Child development the scientific study of the patterns of growth, change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence. Stable throughout childhood learning, playing, sociability, smiling. Differ throughout childhood infants focus on here and now (see, hear, smell, feel); with development, cognition develops (read, recall information, manipulation); the way in which children play will differ throughout stages. Scope of the field a developmental psychologist typically has a focus for each of the following areas. Adolescence (12 to 20) (these stages don"t fit with every theory; e. g. , piaget"s) Theory of mind children don"t develop this until age 3-4 (young children don"t understand that others have desires / needs) Age-graded influences biological or environmental influences that are similar for a specific age group. Cognitive development (how to obtain information, perceptions, thinking) Ses (who / what / why / how; e. g. , who is most likely to be a nonconformist?)
