PSYT 400D2- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 93 pages long!)
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Child development: scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Why study development: raising children: provide solutions for many questions that parents are desperate to have answers to, choosing social policies: make informed laws and policies to help all children, understanding human nature: nature vs nurture. Periods of development: social construction: concept or practice that is an invention of a particular culture or society, e. g. division of the life span into periods of development. Individual differences: differences among children in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes: factors: hereditary, environmental and maturation; contexts of their lives; normative and non-normative influences; timing of these variables. Hereditary, environment, and maturation: e. g. intelligence affected by hereditary + environmental factors, maturation: unfolding of a universal, natural sequence of physical changes and behavior patterns; act in concert w/ hereditary + environmental influences. Important for the experiences of aboriginal canadian children, esp grandparents.
