PSYC 102 Final: Psychology – Final Exam Review
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Psychology final exam review (lecture notes) The science of continuity and change across the lifespan, form conception through adulthood and eventual death. One of psychology"s oldest and more popular sub-disciplines. Nativism: the theory that children are born with specific, structured abilities or those that will automatically develop with maturity (eg, puberty, perceiving colours) Empiricism: the theory that children must acquire certain skills with experience and practice (eg. reading) While some abilities clearly fall into one or the other, there"s lots of controversy about the origin of most abilities and whether they change with experience or not. Development can broadly be conceptualized into one of two types of theories: Stage theories: children develop through a series of universal stages and every child must complete a stage in a specific way before moving to the next one; different abilities come from different stages.
