PSYC 2450 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Born Bad, Heredity, Social Learning Theory
1 Dec 2014
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What goals do developmentalists pursue: description to specify how people change over time, normative development typical patterns of change, ideographic development - individual variations in the rate, extent, or direction of development, explain the changes observed. Normative changes within individuals and variations in development between individuals in positive directions. Some basic observations about the character of development: continual and cumulative process, the first 12 years are an extremely important part of the life span that sets the stage for adolescence and adulthood. Infancy first year of life: prenatal period conception to birth. Hobbes original sing children are inherently selfish egoists who must be restrained by everybody is born bad, need society to overlay their values and laws to make sure we don"t do those bad things. Charles darwin most influential - made daily records of the early development of his son.
