CLD 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Child Development, Heredity, Behaviorism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 101
• Professor: Sejal Patel

Document Summary

Child development: the scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human children. Social construction: concept about what is real based on societally shared perception or assumptions: division of the life span into periods of development. 5 period of development: prenatal period (conception to birth), infancy and toddlerhood (birth to age 3), early childhood (ages 3 to 6), middle childhood (ages 6 to 11), adolescence (ages 11 to about 20). Physical development: growth of body and brain, including biological and physical patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. Cognitive development: pattern of change in mental disabilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Psychosocial development: pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationship. Individual differences: differences among children in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes: aka not everyone develops the same way.