[HDP 1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (72 pages long!)

• School: UCSD
• Department: Human Development Program
• Course: HDP 1
• Professor: Farrell Ackerman

Document Summary

The study of development of living organisms from conception to the end of life. We are cells, and more than cells. Development creates new and different things from familiar pieces. Original sin (knowledge can sometimes redirect what"s there) Tabula rasa (blank slate) experience wholly determines what is there. Facts change, and theories change, so it is important to understand how facts are arrived at, what the nature of theory is and how facts are related to theories about them. We are interested in a certain perspective that affects the discovery of facts and their interpretation: a relational developmental systems perspective on life-span development (=process relational) The world is modified by our expectations of what is there. Clearly articulated that nature and nurture were two utterly independent causal dimensions of development and taking the perspective that nature was more causally determinative than nurture set out to identify their relative degrees of casualty. People are divided into class, nature determines the intelligence.