FRHD 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan S Chuang

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Life-span perspective: takes into account every phase of life, from birth to death. Implications: promotion of accurate and honest study results. Induced labour: the start, increase in speed or strength of birth by a drug. Infant raised in enriched sensory stimulation develop faster. Little scientist: experiments without anticipating the result: stage 6: new means through mental combinations: use of thought and memory to determine a solution and act upon it, deferred imitation: children exhibit behaviours they witnessed hours or days prior. Information processing theory: comparison of human thinking processes to computer analysis of data: sensory input, connections, stored memories, output. Infant amnesia: most people cannot remember anything that took place before the age of two years: memory: young infants actually do have a memory, some require processing. Improper treatment in development can cause epigenetic changes: temperament: inborn differences between one person and another in emotions, activity, and self-regulatio(cid:374), (cid:373)easured (cid:271)y the perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s respo(cid:374)se to the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t.