PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 6 Years, Latency Stage
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Time period: from moment of conception through the period of adolescence. Identifies and describes changes in the child"s cognitive, emotional, motor and social capacities and behaviors. Uncover the processes that underlie these changes to explain how and why they occur. Darwin conducted research on infants" sensory capacities and young children"s emotions. Arnold gesell (1928) believed the course of development was largely predetermined by biological factors: concentrated on maturation natural unfolding of development over the course of growth. Children intentionally try to understand and explore the world about them. Socializing agents such as parents, peers, or teachers do not simply mold the child; children actively influence and modify the actions of their parents and other people with whom they interact. Discontinuous series of discrete steps or stages in which behaviours get reorganized into a qualitatively new set of behaviours: qualitative. Contemporary child researchers see development as basically continuous or quantitative, but sometimes interspersed with periods of change that are discontinuous.
