ACCT20200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Practical Action, Developmental Science, Social Forces
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Developmental science: study of constancy and change throughout lifespan: goal= identify factors that influence consistencies and transformations in people from conception to death, considered to be: Applied= practical importance take knowledge of another field and apply it. Interdisciplinary= grown through the combined efforts of people from many different fields of study: theory: an orderly, integrated set of statements that describe, explain, and predict behaviors. Guide and give meaning to what we see. Provide a sound base for practical action so that we can understand. Basic issues that theories aim to answer: Continuous or discontinuous: continuous: a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with individuals gradually add more of the same types of skills. Infants and children have unique ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Moving through a series of developmental stages, each of which has unique features. Theories that accept the discontinuous perspective regard development as taking place in stages.
