[Psychology 2410A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (50 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Developmental psychology patterns and processes of change in mind &behavior throughout the lifespan. Describe &explain normative development: create developmental trajectories. Interventions that are proven to work due to previous successes/prior evidence. What are some social policy issues involving children or teens: gender reassignment, legal drinking age, legal driving age, educational policies. Implies more, bigger, or better but not qualitatively different. Qualitative (transformational) change from lesser to greater levels of complexity. How do quantitative or qualitative changes occur: empiricist perspective (locke, berkeley, hume) Development primarily the result of experience; linking together co- occurring events (eg. statistical learning: nativist perspective (descartes, leibniz) Prewired learning systems for particular kinds of information (eg. language) Example of influence from nature: genes. Example of influence from nurture: family. Current status of nature/nurture debate: development can"t occur without both processes, they are intricately linked, experience can transform biological processes (eg. epigenetics; hpa reactivity, biological processes can influence susceptibility to environment influences (orchids and dandelions)