PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Normative Social Influence, Dementia, Semen Analysis

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100B
• Professor: Louise Chim

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Developmental psychology examines our physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span. Stage theories contribute a development perspective on the whole life span, by suggesting how people of one age think and act differently when they arrive at a later stage. Researchers who see development as a function of experience tend to see development as continuous and gradual. Researchers who focus on biological maturation see spurts of growth and other changes that make one stage of development very different from another preconventional morality conventional morality post conventional initiative competence identity intimacy integrity. As people grow older, personality gradually stabilizes. Some traits, such as social attributes, are much less stable than temperament. Stability provides our identity; it enables us to depend on others and be concerned a(cid:271)out (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s healthy development. Our potential for change gives us our hop for a brighter future; it motivates our concerns about present influences and lets us adapt and grow with experience.