themes in developmental phych Flashcards
Is who we are determined by experience, or do all humans enter the world with inherent abilities, biases, tuning?
nature vs nurture
what makes us, us?
nature:-pass down , genes
nurture: physical and social enviroment
current view:
nature and nurture inteplay with each other to influence development
genes can be turn on or off
we do have tendecies passed down to us even before birth but the enviroment will impact if and how much the gene will be activated
developmental change
continious : grows in amount but it is still the same ex:physical
discontineous: differemt stages of development ex:piaget
what are mechanism of changes ?
-biological processes
-experiences (attetion,sleep)
-timing of experiences
(sensitive period:time in which chnages/learnings is optimal to occur)ex:trauma,learn a new languague
(early childhood and late adolecent
the role of context
-family
-peers
-school
-community
-socioeconomics statues –culture
-time period ex:pandemic,great depression