PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Personal Fable, Ovulation, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Developmental psychology: focuses on development across life span, a field of psych that focuses on development across the life span. Development: more-or-less predictable changes in behavior, associated with increasing age. Nature or nurture: nature-behavior unfolds over time. Maturation: biological process of systematic physical growth, experience plays a role in specific contexts e. g. , mcgraw come back. Imprinting (lorenz: sensitive period critical period. Early social deprivation: harlo(cid:449)"s monkeys, social isolation, and continuing detrimental effects, controversy over effects on children, some abnormal effects may be irreversible. Variations in development: normal for children to b variable in their development, discontinuities in development are the rule, parents make important decisions about raising children that impacts on development, raising deaf child. Sensorimotor stage infant experiences world in sensory information and motor activities. Preoperational stage - children sometimes think illogically by adult standards. Formal operational stage use of full adult logic. Stage 1 (cid:862)(cid:373)ight (cid:373)akes right(cid:863) punishment/obedience orientation: self-interest.