PSY210H1 Study Guide - Age Of Enlightenment, Lev Vygotsky, Puberty
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Child development studying the constancy and change from conception through adolescence. Prenatal period: conception to birth: 9 months, most rapid changes. Infancy and toddlerhood: from birth to 2 years: most dramatic changes in body and brain, cognition starts to develop. Early childhood: 2 to 6 years: physical change, motor skills refined, self-control/sufficiency. Middle childhood: 6 to 11 years: learn about wider world, athletic abilities, more logic, self, morality, friendship. Adolescence: 11 to 18 years: puberty, autonomy. Is the course of development continuous or discontinuous: 2. Does one course of development characterize all children, or are there many possible outcomes: 3. Continuous or discontinuous: continuous: a process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with. View that children are similar to adults, with similar cognitive processing, except children do not have the same amount of complexity.
