PSY210H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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Scieniic study of changes/coninuiies in organism between iniial concepions and death. Study of child"s cogniive, social and other capaciies by describing changes in child"s behaviour (observed) and then uncovering processes and strategies that underlie these changes. Maturaion: geneic/biologically determined process of growth unfolds over ime. Seeks to understand development for the sake of science. Does ses predict memory span in young children. Knowing the basics will make you a beter educator. Describes psychological structures and processes that undergo qualitaive/stage-like changes over the course of development. Experience not source of human knowledge causes sense to be fallible. Plato"s cave allegory (learning process of remembering informaion; innate knowledge: children enter world with innate knowledge and experience triggers the knowledge. Believed children began journey in life lightly packed and picked up necessary knowledge through experience. Wild boy of aveyron: ater french revoluion, young boy found in the wild -> insituionalized. One of the earliest systemaic observaion of child development.
