PSY2114- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Heather Poole

Document Summary

Infancy and toddlerhood: birth to 2 years: prenatal period: conception to birth. 2: early childhood: 2 to 6 years, middle childhood: 6 to 11 years, adolescence: 11 to 20 years, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood. What does development look like: issues in developmental psychology. Ie. humans are arguable the only species with language, and language skills typically emerge around the same age. Ie. not all humans develop language, and different people develop different languages. Theories emphasizing stability across the lifespan emphasize nature. Theories emphasizing plasticity across the lifespan emphasize nurture. Bogaert (2006) did this and found that boys with older biological brothers were more likely to be homosexual, but boys raised with older step-brothers were not. Some types of development are continuous, some are discontinuous, and some are best explained by a combination of both. Can depend on how closely you look at it (ie. language)