1. Contexts of development example

2. Contexts of development: Childbirth
What information does this scene provide about the contexts (cultural, socioeconomic, historical etc.) in which this birth is occurring?
What does this birth environment suggest about the future care and well-being of this child?
How does childbirth in this setting differ from childbirth in a more/less industrially developed country?

3. Developmental Psychology
Roadmap
Introduction
Issues and questions
Developmental Psychology
Developmental theories Part 1
Theories

4. Introduction to Development
What is development?
Development-continuity and change in the body or behavior across time
Developmental psychology-the study of continuity and change in the body and/or behavior over time

5. Three basic issues Nature vs. Nurture (biology vs. environment)
In reality = Nature x Nurture interactions
Universal experiences vs. Individual differences
Continuity vs. Discontinuity (quantitative vs. qualitative)

6. Social Barometer

7. Three basic issues: Where do you stand?
Nature vs. Nurture (biology vs. environment)
In reality = Nature x Nurture interactions
Universal experiences vs. Individual differences
(contexts)
Continuity vs. Discontinuity
= quantitative vs. qualitative

8. Developmental questions
What causes some children to be bullies?
Why do some children learn to read with little effort, but others require extensive help?
How and when do children learn to distinguish fantasy from reality?
In what ways is brain development affected by experience?
Can infants add and subtract?
Others? Your questions.

9. Types of questions
Descriptive-describing what people know and can do at different ages
e.g., What do 3-year-olds know about math?
Explanatory-How do changes take place, what processes are involved in change
e.g., Why are some kids who grow up in impoverished environments resilient, but others suffer extreme negative consequences?

10. Characteristics of good theories
Organize study designs
Explain and predict (provide hypotheses)
Universal or generalizeable
Parsimonious
Testable or falsifiable
Heuristic (rich research resource)

11. Three theoretical controversies
Nature vs. Nurture (biology vs. environment)
In reality = Nature x Nurture interactions
Universal experiences vs. Individual differences
(contexts)
Continuity vs. Discontinuity
= quantitative vs. qualitative
Where do you stand?

12. Freud Made developmental psychology a legitimate field of study
Psychoanalytic perspective
Psychosexual theory

13. Components of personality
Id: biological needs and desires (innate)
Ego: conscious, rational, determines how to meet desires of Id (early infancy)
Superego: conscience (develops 3-6 years by interaction with parents)

14. Stages of psychosexual development
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
Sexual impulses shift over development

15. For Thursday: Please bring your textbook and theories grid
Be prepared to discuss and apply your assigned theory to a real-world problem
Review PSY 203 Additional Course Policies
Complete the Course Materials “Quiz” posted to Drangelagriffin.weebly.com/D2L and bring to class
Read Chapter 1 assignments. We will not begin Chapter 2 until 1/29
your questions on birth and pregnancy to