PSY311H5 Midterm: Test 1 REview.docx
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Social development is a description of children"s social behaviour and how it changes as children get older. It is a description of children"s ideas about themselves and other people, their relationships with peers and adults, their emotional expressions and displays, and their ability to function in social groups. Maturation a biologically determined process of growth that unfolds over a period of time. Transactional ongoing interchanges between social patterns such as parent and child across time that result in modifications of the social behaviour. Social dyad a pair of social partners, such as friends, parent and child or marital partners. Multifinality the divergence of developmental paths in which two individuals start out similarly but end at very different points. Equifinality the convergence of developmental path in which children follow very different paths to reach the same developmental end point. Psychodynamic theory freud"s theory that development is determined by innate biologically based drives shaped by encounters with the environment in early childhood.
