PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Prenatal Development, Preterm Birth, Primitive Reflexes
19 Feb 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Interested in change, either how much or little change has occurred. The study of how humans grow, develop, and change though the life span. Development: conception to birth the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from. Special considerations: post hoc fallacy false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. Causal relationships, ignores other possibilities for the relationship: children"s development influences their experiences, but their experiences are also influenced by their development (bidirectional influences) Continuous or stages: development can occur in stages or continuously. Stability of personal characteristics over time: stability indicates that it is genetically predetermined. Gene-environment interaction the impact of genes depends on the environment in which the behavior develops. Nature via nurture genetic predispositions can drive us to select and create particular environments: this often appears to be a pure effect of nurture.
