PSYC 2450 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Field Experiment, Umbilical Cord, Lanugo

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Winter2012

Document Summary

Introduction to development psychology emerging adulthood late teens to mid 20s. Development systematic continuities and changes in an individual between conception and death: holistic, plastic, continual & summulative. Developmental continuities ways we remain stable over time or continue to reflect our past. Developmental psychology identifying/explaining continuities & changes of an individual. Developmentalist any scholar ( any discipline) seeking to understand the developmental process. 2 important processes that underlie developmental changes: 1) maturation: Developmental changes in the body/behavior that result from the aging process. Partly responsible for psychological changes such as our increasing ability to concentrate, solve problems and understand another persons thoughts or feelings. Heredity guides us & similar species through maturation at same points in our lives: 2) learning . Relatively permanent changes in feelings, thoughts, behavior resulting from experiences or practice. We often learn to feel, think and behave in new ways from our observations and interactions with others and our environment.