EDP 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Implicit Memory, Problem Solving, Object Permanence
23 Sep 2016
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Edp 260: basic issues of development, fours development perspectives, theories, scienti c beginnings (darwin"s theory, mid-twentieth century theories, psychoanalytic perspective, behavioral and social perspective, cognitive theory, recent theoretical perspectives. 1: developmental cognitive neuroscience, ethology and evolutionary, vygotsky"s sociocultural, ecological systems, research, research methods, research designs, ethical issues. 3: speculations about how people grow and change have existed for centuries. They must be agreed on by the scienti c community. They must be repeated over time: this chapter will introduce you to the major theories of human development and research strategies used to test them, three basic issues of human development theories, 1. Is the course of development continuous or discontinuous: 2. Does one course of development characterize all people, or are there many possible courses: 3. The lifespan perspective: a balanced point of view (pg. 5: so far, the theories that we have discussed have been one side or the other.
