PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Biopsychosocial Model, Personal Fable, Cultural Learning
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An ongoing, lifelong process that is influenced by the biopsychosocial model. Development psychology: the study of age related changed in behavior, mental processes, etc. Nature: development governed by maturation and critical periods, maturation continuing influence of heredity throughout development, critical periods a time of special sensitivity to specific types of learning. Nurture: development governed by learning through observation/personal experience, exposure being in contact with a view, fact, condition, etc. Some developmental psychologists believe development follows a continuous pattern. Measures individuals of various ages at one point in time and provides info about age differences. Measures a single individual/group over an extended period of time and gives into about age changes. Physical development and orderly process of increasing complexity. During prenatal development, the brain is characterized by neural tissue. First 3 prenatal months are critical to development. Alcohol and nicotine can cause damage during prenatal development. Brain is formed from the neural tube.
