PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural-Historical Psychology, Twin, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Chapter 3 recent perspectives on social and personality development. Caregivers who suffer from trauma may be inattentive or neglectful to an infant"s cries causing. Gesell argued that human development was largely a matter of biological maturation- children. Ethology is the scientific study of the evolutionary basis of behavior and the contributions of. According to lorenz and tinbergen, members of all animal species are born with a set of biologically programmed behavior that are products of evolution and are adaptive for survival. These biologically programmed characteristics are believed to have evolved as a result of natural selection. Human ethologists such as bowlby believed that children display a set of preprogrammed behaviors; they also claim that the responses to their behaviors, promote a particular kind of experience that will help the individual survive and develop normally. For instance, the cry of the child calls for the caregiver"s attention.
