PSYC3282 Final: Summary of Developmental Perspectives Final Exam Notes
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Active: children are driven by inborn instincts that are channelled (with the assistance of others) into socially desirable outlets. Discontinuous: emphasis is on stages of psychosexual development (freud) or psychosocial development (erikson). Passive: children are moulded by their environments (although. Bandura claims that developing persons also influence these environments). Active: children actively construct more sophisticated understandings of the self, others, and the environment to which they adapt. Continuous: emphasizes the gradual addition of learned responses (habits) that make up one"s personality. Discontinuous: emphasizes an invariant sequence of qualitatively distinct cognitive stages. Active: children actively process information that others provide to guide their learning and thinking. Active: children actively process environmental information to answer questions, solve problems, or otherwise master challenges. Continuous: children gradually acquire new competencies from their transactions with more competent associates. Continuous: emphasizes gradual quantitative changes in attention, perception, memory, and problem- solving skills.
