CHAPTER 1: LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT Prof. Alas, MA HCC-STAFFORD
What is Developmental Psychology? Developmental psychologists are interested in how people change, physically and psychologically as they age. Developmental psychologists are interested in common patterns of development and growth and the way in which people differ throughout the lifespan.
Nature and Nurture Nature-nurture controversy - long-standing debate over relative importance of heredity and learning in many aspects of functioning. John Locke, British philosopher, believed that human infants born without knowledge or skills. Jean Rousseau, French philosopher, argued that we bring into our world our evolutionary legacy.
DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGNS 1. LONGITUDINAL DESIGN 2. CROSS-SECTION DESIGN
RESEARCH DESIGNS: LONGITUDINAL Observe and test same individuals over long period of time.
RESEARCH DESIGNS: CROSS-SECTIONAL Subject, groups, different ages, observed and immediately compared to each other
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY
VYGOTSKY THEORY
VYGOTSKY THEORY
EPIGENETIC