PSYC 3120- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Chapter 1- an introduction to life span development. Types of development: physical development, cognitive development, personality development, social development. Developmental periods: prenatal period, conception to birth. Key issues in adulthood: context of development, continuous vs. discontinuous development, critical vs. sensitive periods, nature vs. nurture. Contexts of development: normative age graded influences, normative sociocultural influences, history graded influences, nonnormative influences. Continuous vs. stage-like development: evidence supports both ways of viewing human development. Nature vs. nurture: nature, stability, nurture, change. It"s (cid:374)ot (cid:374)ature or (cid:374)urture-but nature and nurture: nature vs. nurture has influence on policy decisions. Major theoretical perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, contextual. The contextual perspective: broad approach to development. Ecological system theory (brofenbrenner: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem. Research methods in developmental psychology: naturalistic observation, case study, correlational study. Correlational coefficient: a measure of the relationship between two variables, range, +1. 0: perfect positive correlation, 0. 0: no correlation. Imply that two scores are related: does not imply causation.
