HDFS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Factor Analysis, Ethnic Group, Operant Conditioning
22 Jan 2017
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The science of human development seeks to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or remain the same over time. Five basic steps of the scientific method: begin with curiosity, develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw conclusions, report the results. Epigenetics: how environmental factors affect genes and genetic expression. Differential susceptibility: how environmental experiences differ because of particular inherited genes. Red means stop: neuroscience confirms that depression is biological, not just psychological. Age ranges for different periods of development: infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood. 65 years and older: adulthood, late adulthood. Development is multi-directional: over time, human characteristics change in every direction, several major theorists describe discontinuous stages of development: freud, erickson, Piaget: others view development as a continuous process. Critical period: time when certain things must occur for normal development. Sensitive period: time when a particular development occurs most easily.
