PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Congenital Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Social Change
15 Apr 2019
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You are predisposed by genetics to become shy, sociable, smart, athletic, artistic, or depressed. Your fate is shaped by life experience. Accounts for the interaction of nature and nurture. Knowledge, skills, and abilities gradually added at a relatively uniform pace. Alternating between little change and abrupt rapid changes. Personality in infancy does not resemble personality in adulthood. Incrementally increase $ over time as a good incentive. Cognitive structures consisting of a number of organized ideas that grow and differentiate with experience. Adjusting old schemas or developing new ones to better fit with new info. Understanding that objects or people continue to exist even when they can"t be seen, heard or touched. Uses senses and motor skills to explore and develop cognitively. Here and now rather than past and future. Understanding that certain physical characteristics remain unchanged, even when their outward appearance changes.
