PSYCH212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2&3: Character Education, Prosocial Behavior, Escalade

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH212
• Professor: Maureen Drysdale

Document Summary

Biological processes involves changes in the body in which genetic inheritance plays a large part: development of the brain, height and weight gains, changes in motor skills and puberty"s hormonal changes. Cognitive processes involves changes in thinking, intelligence, and language: enables students to memorize a poem, imagine how to solve a mat problem, come up with a creative strategy or string together meaningfully connected sentences. Socio-emotional processes involves changes in relationship with other people, changes in emotion, and changes in personality. Periods of development development periods are infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Maturation and experience (nature and nurture) development produced also by the interaction of maturation and experience. Maturation is the orderly sequence of changes dictated by an individual"s genetic blueprint extreme environments can harm development they believe that basic growth tendencies are genetically wired into everyone"s makeup.