PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Albert Bandura, Sigmund Freud, Normative Social Influence
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Developmental psychology the study of the physical, cognitive and social changes throughout the lifespan. Three issues: nature vs. nurture: how do our genetic inheritance (nature) and our experience in our environment (nurture) affect our development, continuity vs. Physical development (motor/sensory development: rooting reflex when touched on the cheek, baby will turn toward the touch, open the mouth and search for the nipple, sucking reflex object placed in baby"s mouth, infant will suck on it. Maturation biological growth enabling orderly changes in behaviour (uninfluenced by fingers/toes experience) Cognition all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating: schema concept or framework that organizes and interprets information, assimilation interpreting one"s new experience in terms of one"s existing schemas. Accommodation adapting one"s current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. Piaget"s stages of cognitive development: object permanence the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
