PSYC 2230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reality Principle, Toilet Training, Electra Complex
17 Dec 2017
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Continuous development: a view that regards development as a cumulative process of adding on more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with. Discontinuous development: a view in which new and different ways of interpreting and responding to the world emerge at particular time periods. Nature: the belief that development is determined by genetic or biological factors. Nurture: the belief that development is determined by experience or environmental factors. Nativism: certain skills or abilities hardwired into brain at birth. Hall; gesell: normative development more on the nature side of the debate. Watson; skinner: behaviorism; on the nurture side of the debate. Active: children are active in helping to shape and influence their own development. Passive: children are passive recipients of external influences that determine their development. Libido is sexual energy that is a driving force of behavior. 5 stages of development pertaining to areas of the body discontinuous nature passive.
