PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Heredity, Tabula Rasa

• School: UCLA
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 130
• Professor: elizabethdarvick

Document Summary

Stage theorists: people everywhere follow the same sequence of development. Children grow in in distinct contexts - unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change. Environmental: immediate settings (home, child care center, school, neighborhood) and circumstances that are more remote (community resources, societal values and priorities, historical time period) Genetic or environmental factors and their importance of influence. Theories that emphasize stability: children who are high or low in a characteristic will remain so at later ages. Stress importance of heredity and early experiences that establish lifelong pattern of behavior. Theories that see development as having substantial plasticity throughout life. Open to change in response to influential experiences. Positions of many theorists have soften and take on both sides. Resilience: ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats to development. Investigators looking for ways to protect young people from damaging effects of stressful life conditions.