themes in developmental phych

Question 1

Is who we are determined by experience, or do all humans enter the world with inherent abilities, biases, tuning?

Question 2

nature vs nurture

Answer 2

what makes us, us?

nature:-pass down , genes

nurture: physical and social enviroment

Question 3

current view:

Answer 3

nature and nurture inteplay with each other to influence development

Question 4

genes can be turn on or off

Answer 4

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

Question 5

developmental change

Answer 5

continious : grows in amount but it is still the same ex:physical

discontineous: differemt stages of development ex:piaget

Question 6

what are mechanism of changes ?

Answer 6

-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

Question 7

the role of context

Answer 7

-family
-peers
-school
-community
-socioeconomics statues –culture
-time period ex:pandemic,great depression