PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Developmental Psychology, Strabismus, Prenatal Development
Document Summary
Children play active roles in their own development. Interpreting their: regulating their, eliciting reactions, self-initiated activity, from before birth through adolescence, children"s self initiated activities, movement affects, looking preferences guide, self-locomotion expands the child"s, language affects, peer relationships influence, active interpretation of experience. Children (as well as adults) also learn a great deal from observing and interacting with other people. Among the crucial contributors to social learning are imitation, social referencing, language, and guided participation. Social learning influences socio-emotional development as well as the acquisition of knowledge. The likelihood of imitating other people is affected: cognitive change mechanisms. Many of the most compelling analyses of developmental change are at the cognitive level, Informal theories about the main types of entities in the world inanimate objects, people, and other living things: change mechanisms work together. It is crucial to remember that biological, cognitive and behavioral mechanisms reflect interactions. Sociocultural differences exert an influence on cognitive development.
