PSY 2210- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 160 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Chapter 1 - who we are and what we study. Lifespan development - the scientific study of human development throughout life. Gerontology - what happens when we get older. Study of lifespan development is multidisciplinary developmentalists explore: Individual differences nature versus nurture temperament, talent, traits. Cohort: birth group example - baby boom cohort. Socioeconomic status (ses) education and income level developmental world, developing world. Historical background: poverty; high mortality rates child abuse common. John locke - humans born a tabula rasa . Jean jacques rousseau - infants are innocent and we should lovingly nurture babies. These practices not instituted until early 20th century. Changing conceptions of early life: adolescence and emerging. Late 19th century: kinder, gentler view of children. 20th century: adolescence: identi ed by g. stanley hall. Stage of storm and stress between childhood and adulthood. In the 1930s, president franklin roosevelt ordered high school attendance as mandatory. Changing conceptions of later life: adulthood and old age.
