PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Leading Question, Motor Cortex, Twin
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Major topical areas: physical development, brain, puberty (sexual), motor, senses/perception, cognitive development, learning, memory, problem solving, language, intelligence, psychosocial development, social, emotional, interpersonal relationships, peer relationships, personality, temperament. "baby biography": his careful observations of motor, sensory, and emotional growth of son. Beginnings of research-based theories: freud; psychoanalytic theory - biological drives, esp. sexual drives influence development, watson; behaviourist theory - development determined by environmental factors, the two put developmental psychology on the map. Enduring themes: nature vs nurture, nature: biological, genetic inheritance. Normative vs. idiographic: normative: describes the typical average development; i. e. puberty in adolescence years, milestones (commonalities) Idiographic: looking at the differences; i. e. poverty vs. rich environments, culture, parenting styles - creates unique person. Interaction of genome and environment determines when changes occur, and what these changes are: effortful attention: voluntary control of one"s emotions and thoughts; analysis of brain activity, genes, learning experiences. Includes impulses (i. e. obeying parents), controlling emotions (i. e.
