PSYCH211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Twin Study, In Vitro Fertilisation
19 Nov 2016
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Child development: an area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception through adolescence. Developmental science: includes all changes we experience throughout the lifespan. Main goal for those that study it: to describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in young people during the first two decades of life. Info we know about child development is interdisciplinary it has grown through the combined efforts of people from many fields. Development is often divided into 3 broad domains: physical, cognitive, and emotional and social. The domains are not distinct, rather they combine in an integrated fashion to yield the living, growing child. Physical development changes in body size, proportions, appearance, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor capacities, and physical health. Cognitive development changes in intellectual abilities, including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge, problem solving, imagination, creativity, and language.
