PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes -Tabula Rasa, Innatism, Philosophical Perspectives

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Gillian Wu

Document Summary

Developmentalist: anyone who studies developmental sciences (psychology being the largest discipline to study this) 2 processes for developmental change: maturation and learning. Maturation: biological unfolding of an individual due to inheritance: this includes things like learning how to talk, sexual maturity, and death, it also includes psychological maturity like the ability to understand ones feelings, and solving problems. Learning: how our experiences cause changes in our abc"s. (3) goals: to describe, explain and optimize development. Describing development: focus is on both describing typical patterns of development (normative development) and individual variations (ideographic development) overall description is used to explain facts . Explaining development: used to understand why ppl develop the way they do, and why others develop differently. Some basic observations about the character of development. It is a continual and cumulative process: the first 12 years of life are very important in setting the stage for adulthood (the changes that do occur are important for the future)