01:830:331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gestation, Nuclear Family
3 Oct 2016
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Focuses on scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Growth of body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. Learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Concept about nature of reality based on societally shared perceptions. Differences among children in characteristics, influences, developmental outcomes o. Totality of nonheredity, or experimental influences on development. Unfolding of a universal natural sequence of physical and behavioral. Household unit generally consists of one/two parents and children. Historically, nuclear family dominant (large, rural families) Nowadays, urban, smaller families an both parents work outside. Multigenerational kinship network of parents, children, and other relatives, sometime living together in an extended family household. Society"s groups total way of life, including customs, traditions, laws, knowledge, beliefs, values o. All learned behavior passed on from adults children. Consists of people united by distinctive culture, race, etc.
