PSY 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anger Management, Speech-Language Pathology, Menopause
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Introduction child development: the studying of patterns, stability, and change through an individual"s life from conception until adolescence. If a child"s age and range difference is extreme, it could be problematic (e. g. language development doesn"t being until pre-school period; parents seek out speech pathologist) Influences of diversity (culture, gender, ethnicity, race: based on biological differences between communities ethnicity: based on cultural differences (e. g. language, religion, nationality) cohort: individuals born around the same time and place. Alfred binet: french psychologist; studied mental calculation, memory, and child intelligence: stanley hall: used questionnaires to illuminate children"s thinking and behavior. Leta stetting hollingworth: one of the first female psychologists to study child development. Continuous changediscontinuous changegradual change building one event after the otheroccur in distinct steps/stagesquantitativequalitativee. g. height previous to adulthoode. g. *both influence development and are controversial in what plays a bigger role in various parts of life (e. g. anger management) maturation: the predetermined unfolding of genetic information.
