PS275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Measuring Instrument, Philosophical Perspectives
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Development - systematic continuities and changes in individual that occur between conceptions and death. Continuities - ways in which we remain stable over time or continue to reflect our past. Developmental sciences - study of phenomena; is a multidisciplinary enterprise. Developmental psych - devoted to identifying/explaining the continuities and changes that individuals display over time. Developmentalist - any scholar who seeks to understand the developmental process. Maturation - developmental changes in body/behaviour that result from aging processes rather than learning, injury, illness or other life experience. Learning - relatively permanent change in behaviour that results from one"s experiences or practice. We change in response to our environments. Description: observe behaviour of people of different ages, looking at how people change over time. Necessary to focus on typical patterns of change (normative development) and individual variations in patterns of change (ideographic development) Explain: hope to determine why people develop as they do and why people develop differently than others.
