PSY210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Arnold Gesell, Operant Conditioning, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Characteristics versus contextual and cultural influences: what are the aspects of development, biological, cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social. Forces that affect developmental change: individual characteristics versus contextual and cultural. Influences: children behave similarly across a broad range of situations, contexts in which children live affect how children behave and even how development occurs, interactionist viewpoint, individual and contextual factors. Researching across cultures: culture related to development, encouraged to walk early or are carried for long periods of tine. Structural-organismic perspectives: freud and piaget interested in psychological development: structuralism, freud: emotions and personality, piaget: thinking, structural-organismic perspective, theoretical approaches that describe psychological structures and processes that undergo qualitative or stage-like changes over the course of development. Contextual perspectives: sociocultural theory, bronfenbrenner"s ecological theory, lifespan perspective. Themes and theories: a final comment: table 1-3, pg 20: overview of developmental themes and theoretical perspectives.
