PSY 321- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Cognitive development: what is development, changes that occur btwn conception & death, cd: changes in thinking, reasoning, decision making, maturation vs learning, maturation happens naturally, can prepare us for learning. Principles of dvlpmnt: people develop at diff. rates, dvlmpnt: relatively orderly, dvlpmnt: gradual, hard to rush. Socrates must be mortal: exp: dog always barks when someone is at the door. Someone must be at the door: inductive reasoning, draws general principles from specific instances, exp: john"s fingerprints are on the murder weapon. So, john committed the murder: meta-cognition, being able to reflect on your own thinking/learning, inferences, adolescent egocentrism, that feeling that everyone is watching you. Vygotsky: dvlpmnt: transformation of socially shared activities into internalized processes, bioecological model, in order to dvlp normal. Ecological systems theory proposed human dvlpmnt unfolds in nested set of systems (cultural, social, economic, & political elements) not just psychological ones.
