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PSY 203. Chapter 1. Which statement reflects your view?. Development is a continuous, gradual progression, with new abilities, skills, and knowledge gradually added at a relatively uniform pace.
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PSY 203 Chapter 1
Which statement reflects your view? • Development is a continuous, gradual progression, with new abilities, skills, and knowledge gradually added at a relatively uniform pace. • Development occurs at different rates, alternating between periods of little change and periods of abrupt, rapid change.
Which statement reflects your view? • Children respond to the world in much the same way as adults. The main difference is that children’s thinking is less sophisticated and complex than adults. • Children have unique ways of thinking about and responding to the world that are very different from those of adults.
Which statement reflects your view? • An individual’s personality is mostly determined by heredity. • An individual’s personality can be modified through caregiving experiences.
Fundamental Questions • Continuity/stages (quantitative/qualitative or continuous/discontinuous)
Fundamental Questions • Continuity/stages (quantitative/qualitative) • Nature/nurture
Fundamental Questions • Continuity/stages (quantitative/qualitative) • Nature/nurture • Stability/change
Contexts of Development • Family
Contexts of Development • Family • School
Contexts of Development • Family • School • Community
Contexts of Development • Family • School • Community • Media
Contexts of Development • Family • School • Community • Media • Job
Contexts of Development • Family • School • Community • Media • Job • Culture
Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner) • Microsystem • Immediate family, home life
Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner) • Microsystem • Mesosystem • Interrelationships between settings in which person participates • Parents & school, parents & day care, parents & peers
Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner) • Microsystem • Mesosystem • Exosystem • Child not actively involved but affect family • Parents’ work, family friends, neighbors
Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner) • Microsystem • Mesosystem • Exosystem • Macrosystem • Ethnic group, cultural factors, politics, economics
Influences on Development • Age-graded
Influences on Development • Age-graded • History-graded (cohort effect)
Influences on Development • Age-graded • History-graded (cohort effect) • Nonnormative
Influences on Development • Age-graded • History-graded (cohort effect) • Nonnormative • Reciprocal interaction/bidirectionality
Research Designs • Cross-sectional study
Research Designs • Cross-sectional study • Longitudinal study
Research Designs • Cross-sectional study • Longitudinal study • Sequential design