2A Flashcards
Psychological development
refers to an individual’s changes and lifelong growth across emotional, cognitive, and social domains.
social development
changes in an individual’s relationship with other people and their skills in interacting
cognitive development
changes in an individuals mental abilities,such as reasonign, problem solving, decision making, perception, learning, memory and use of languages.
Emotional development
Changes in how an individaul experiences different feelings and how these feelings are expressed and interpreted and dealt with
Examples of social development
- Learning to how to have conversations with others
- Learning how to appropriately communicate with your colleagues
Examples of cognitive social development
- learning a second language
- learning your timetables
- understanding that others have different perspectives to your own
Examples of emotional development
- learning how to appropriately express emotions such as anger.
- Recognising your own emotions
- Understanding how others around you feel.
Nature
compare physical and phycological development
Nature states that the Genes we inherit from our parents influence
many aspects of our physical development
what genes do we inherit from parents that impacts out physical development e blood type, eye and hair colour, body shape, likeliness of developing certain illnesses and disorders.
e blood type, eye and hair colour, body shape, likeliness of developing certain illnesses and disorders.
Nature is influenced by
genetic predisposition; the increased likelihood to develop certain traits, including diseases if certain conditions are met
What does nature believe about personality, intelliegnece and interested
personality, intelligence and interseted are predetermined at birth
Nurture
Refers to environmental factors that influence development and arise from an individual’s physical and social surroundings.
Examples of nurture
E.g. food, education, exposure to pollutants, socioeconomic status, culture, social groups, early childhood experiences.
What does nurture believe
Belief that education, social groups, jobs, surroundings, socioeconomic status contribute to development