PSYB20H3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 216 pages long!)
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It is a social construction: an idea that is generally accepted to be real by a particular culture or society. Adolescence (ages 11 to 20) more sleep probs. Mental health risks are higher; drug abuse, depression, eating disorders, etc. illogical ideas about world. Schooling to prepare for college intiative and self- control. Typical: death of a parent, atypical: surviving a plane crash. Lorenz showed that newly hatched duckling will instinctively follow the first moving object they see called imprinting. In an active view, people initiate events; they do not just react. Ex. like walking or crawling up a ramp (quantitative change: change in number or amount, such as in height, weight, size of vocabulary, or frequency of communication. From a non-verbal child to who understands words and can communicate verbally (qualitative change: changes in kind, structure, or organization) Reciprocal determinism: the child acts of the world as the world acts on the child.
