themes in developmental phych Flashcards

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

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nature vs nurture

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what makes us, us?

nature:-pass down , genes

nurture: physical and social enviroment

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current view:

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nature and nurture inteplay with each other to influence development

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genes can be turn on or off

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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

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developmental change

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

discontineous: differemt stages of development ex:piaget

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what are mechanism of changes ?

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-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

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the role of context

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

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