PSYB21H3 Study Guide - Lev Vygotsky, Research Question, Urie Bronfenbrenner

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What is development: development refers to changes in the child that occur over time, child changes, not just any change, a developmental change must follow a logical pattern that moves toward greater complexity. Developmental theories: used to describe how children differ across ages, and how development happens. 5 major perspectives on children"s development: biological, psychoanalytic, behavioural, cognitive, contextual. Cognitive theories: development is an interplay between nature and nurture, focus on the way children construct their own understandings of their environment, cognitive developmental theory. Development takes place through the interaction of innate and environmental factors. Children play an active role in their own development: information-processing theory. Focuses on the precise steps involved in performing mental tasks. Cognitive advances in thinking result from gradual improvements in children"s attention, memory, and strategies for acquiring and useful information: social learning theory. Explains how children learn social behaviours such as helping others or aggressive behaviours.