PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Moral Reasoning, Social Change, Zeitgeist
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Improvements/ disabilities in functioning reasoning and functioning of a person: why: individual experiences, factors that you are exposed to. In a lot of developmental models development usually stops adolescence: that is not a very logical process, change is continued with the rest of your lifespan. Genotype: genetic makeup, differences in genotype are due to parental genetic material, actual genes, passed on from parents. Phenotype: characteristics of individual, differences in phenotype are due to differences in genotype and/ or differences in environment, observable, measurable characteristics, also due to experiences, we will be focusing on phenotypes in this course. Is it influencing how his body is being formed. Maturation: we"ll only see change in skills and abilities when the body is ready to respond to certain experiences (stage theory) Ideographic: focus on individual differences in development: susie is 18 months old and not crawling yet.