PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Psych
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Child psych/ developmental psychology: scientific study of patterns of growth, We grow and change throughout our entire lives change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence. There are substantial individual differences in the timing of events. Cohort: a group of people born around the same time in the same place. Influences on development with a particular historical moment. Cohort effects// similar influences of members of a particular cohort. History graded influences// biological and environmental influences associated. Age-graded influences// biological and environmental influences similar for. Sociocultural influences// biological and environmental influences associated with. Non-normative life events: specific, atypical events that occur at a time when individuals of a particular age group ethnicity, social class, etc. such events do not happen to most people. Theories: borad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of. Based on systematic integration of prior findings and theorizing// more formal interest// framework for understanding relationships.