PSY 1102 Lecture : Lecture Notes for the Developing Person Lectures from Klempan's course from Winter 2010. Comments not part of class notes (extra information said in class) are in italics.

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Note: you need to know the names of the theorists! Development monitors change, and differences over time. Babies are surprisingly flexible, but as they grow they are less flexible but they have more balanced and more coordinated. In his learning approach, he believes that all behaviour is learned through process of rewards and punishments. A sequence of discontinuous and qualitative changes: Stage theories have a dominant theme of behaviours at each stage each stage has qualitatively different behaviours. Not quantitative necessarily, it"s a butterfly-and- caterpillar kind of stage. All children progress through same stages in same order. These theorists believe that they are independent of culture, a generalized ability. Freud proposed that personality becomes fixed at age 5 and then remains the same. Personality traits seem to stabilize in adulthood. In elder years, women become much more assertive and direct. Men become less masculine in terms of those masculine traits, more laidback.