PSYC 2450 Chapter 1: Chapter 1.doc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Brian Mc Dougall

Document Summary

Development refers to systematic continuities and changes in the individual that occur between conception and death. Systematic orderly, patterned, and relatively enduring, so temporary mood swings and other transitory changes in our appearances, thoughts, and behaviours are therefor excluded. Continuities ways in which we remain the same or continue to reflect our past in development. Developmental psychology branch of psychology devoted to identifying and explaining the continuities and changes that individuals display over time. Developmentalist any scholar, regardless of discipline, who seeks to understand the developmental process (for example, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, educators) We change in response to our environments. 3 major goals of developmental sciences: describe development, explain development, optimize development. Normative development developmental changes that characterize most or all members of a species; typical patterns of development. Ideographic development individual variations in the rate, extent, or direction of development. Emotions, personality, and the growth of interpersonal relationships.