PSY 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Connection Form, Jean Piaget, Attachment Theory
20 Mar 2018
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8-9 years old, niche picking more important as we get older. Enlarge our mental capacities to fit input from the wider world. The first step promoting mental growth, involving fitting environmental input to our existing mental capacities. You come across a bottle of juice with a pop-top and learn that you cannon open it in the same way as a screw top. You have to change your existing idea of bottle opening to include pop-tops and screw tops as separate ways of opening bottles. Clinical psychotherapy that uses techniques derived to treat and help with psychological disorders. Goal is to release repressed emotions and experiences, ie. to make the unconscious conscious. An overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity and evolution. It emphasizes the shared contributions of genes, environment, and epigenetic factors on developmental processes. Responses that we reward or reinforce will be learned. Non-normative: divorce, death of child, decline in economy.
