PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Fetus, Personality Development, Feta
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Human development: developmental psychology, how humans develop and change over time. It"s about how much affect nature has over nurture rather than is it caused by nature only or nurture only: environment vs. genetics, maturation. Biologically determined changes that follow an orderly sequence: brain and other organs mature in a certain order when we"re in the womb and growing up, determine the importance of early experiences. If key experiences do not occur during a critical time period: function may not develop or may not be fully developed, the case of genie. Compares groups of different ages at the same time: useful for assessing age differences, not useful for examining age changes, problem is that each group has different life experiences, longitudinal method. Examine different age groups at multiple time points: reduce cohort effects, physical development, structural and organization effects. Viruses, chemicals, alcohol, drugs: during embryonic period. Developing fetus is susceptible to toxins: fetal alcohol syndrome.
