PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes -Naturalistic Observation, Developmental Psychology, Participant Observation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Infant, children, adolescence in the premodern and modern world. Infants become capable of walking and uttering their first meaningful words at about the age of 1. Individuals reach sexual maturity between ages of 11 and 15, and then age and die on roughly similar schedules. Most developmental changes are the product of both maturation and learning. Normative development: developmental changes that characterize most or all members of a species; typical patterns of development. Ideographic development: individual variations in the rate, extent or, direction of development. The first 12 years are an extremely important part of the life span that sets the stage for adolescence and adulthood. Human development is a continual and cumulative process as we continue to change with our final change being when we die. Now, this classification is known as misleading, for researchers who work in any of these areas have found that changes in one aspect of development have important implications for other aspects holistic perspective.