PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Structured Interview, Participant Observation, Jean Piaget
23 Oct 2013
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Chapter 1: introduction to developmental psychology and its research strategies. Development sciences are multidisciplinary but development psychology is the largest of disciplines. 2 important processes underlying development: maturation: refers to biological unfolding of the individual according to species-typical biological inheritance and an individual"s biological inheritance. Human maturational biological program calls for us to become capable of walking and uttering first words by about 1; to reach sexual maturity between 11-15, to age and die on roughly similar schedule. Partly responsible for psychological changes like increasing ability to concentrate, solve problems, and understand another person"s thoughts or feelings. Many of our abilities and habits require learning and we often learn to feel, think, and behave in new ways through observations of and interactions with parents, teachers, etc. as well as from events that we experience. Most developmental changes are the product of both these processes.
