Intro Flashcards
1
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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
2
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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
3
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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)
