Intro Flashcards

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Normative vs ideographic development

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  • Developmental theories need to account for both findings
  • Normative development: Typical patterns of development e.g. Language acquisition
  • Ideographic development: Individual differences in rate or extent of development
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Development chronology

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  • Period of life - approximate age
  • Parental period - conception to birth
  • Infancy - 0-18 months
  • Toddlerhood - 18 month - 3 years
  • Preschool period (young children) - 3 -5 years
  • Middle childhood (older children) - 6 - 12/13 years
  • Adolescence - about 12 - 20 years
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History

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  • Present day: western cultures are child centered
  • Modern conceptualization of childbearing practices influenced by Hobbes (original sin) vs Rousseau’s (innate purity) and Locke’s notion of the infant mind (tabula rasa)
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