PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Ontogeny, Preformationism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

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Distinct time periods: infancy: 0 2, early childhood: 2 7, middle childhood: 7 12, adolescence: 12 18, young adulthood: 18 40, middle adulthood: 40 65, older adulthood: 65+ Terrible two"s) (cid:224) grow out of them, may grow into another: for a developmental psychologist, children are said to be in a stage when their behaviour is qualitatively different from the behaviour of children in earlier or later stages (eg. puberty, cognitive development, the behaviour or thought of one stage is different from the behaviour or thought of another stage (eg. stage of understanding theory of mind) Empiricism: philosophical perspective that nature provides only species general learning mechanisms, with cognition arising as a result of experience: there is no human nature except for adapting to one"s environment, we are not born with any predispositions that make certain types of learning easier than others, john locke, nurture.