PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Oral Stage, Lev Vygotsky, Latency Stage
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Chapter 1: child development themes, theories and methods. Development psychologist are interested in what things change as children get older, and how these changes come about. Charles darwin: conducted a research on infants early sensory and perceptual capacities and childrens emotions. Scientist have studied childrens development they have examined and debated three key issues of themes pertaining to psychological l growth. Most theories say that biological and environmental factors influence human development. Arnold gesell"s psychologist believed that the course of development is largely identified by the biological factors. During his research arnold gesell focused on maturation or the natural unfolding of development over the course of growth. Modern developmentalist explore how biological, environmental factors, nature, nurture interact to produce development variations in different children. A question that development psychologist worry about is how to describe the pattern of development change two basic patterns are debated.
