Human Development
Human development: Part 1
• Developmental of age-related changes in behaviour and mental process from conception to death→ developmental psychology
(Conception starts at because things can affect the fetus before birth)
Now looking at different aspects of developmental psy:
Developing physically and cognitively (todays lecture)
Special considerations:
• Post hoc fallacy→ Describes the tendency of people to assume that if something happens later and you found out that something else happen earlier did that earlier thing cause that later thing. - Not all early experiences cause things that happened later. Ex. Depression what factors in childhood lead to depression in adulthood. You might see the whole group drank milk in childhood and that could be a factor. This temptation to consider this ridiculous cause is post hoc fallacy. Everyone drinks milk when a child.
• Bidirectional influences→ It’s not just the environment hinging on the child the child is also actively creating a certain environment.
Researchers thought of children as passive recipients of their experiences. Its been shown that temperament affects the parenting babies receive. Easy babies are quite easy to parents and are more likely to engage in sensitive parenting so will unknown caregivers. If you are a difficult baby then your parents will engage in less sensitive parenting practices even unfamiliar adults will too.
• Thinking about early experiences
• Infant determinism→ what happens to you when you are an infant will set you a particular course and you can’t deviate from that later on (obvi not true) early experiences are important but so are later experiences. IF a child is in a institution and they have certain affects and deficits like their social skills or their brain development etc. if they are then adopted soon you won’t see those deficits anymore and so early experiences don’t set you on a permanent course.
• Childhood fragility→ All these little choices and decisions
• Developmental of age-related changes in behaviour and mental process from conception to death→ developmental psychology
(Conception starts at because things can affect the fetus before birth)
Now looking at different aspects of developmental psy:
Developing physically and cognitively (todays lecture)
Special considerations:
• Post hoc fallacy→ Describes the tendency of people to assume that if something happens later and you found out that something else happen earlier did that earlier thing cause that later thing. - Not all early experiences cause things that happened later. Ex. Depression what factors in childhood lead to depression in adulthood. You might see the whole group drank milk in childhood and that could be a factor. This temptation to consider this ridiculous cause is post hoc fallacy. Everyone drinks milk when a child.
• Bidirectional influences→ It’s not just the environment hinging on the child the child is also actively creating a certain environment.
Researchers thought of children as passive recipients of their experiences. Its been shown that temperament affects the parenting babies receive. Easy babies are quite easy to parents and are more likely to engage in sensitive parenting so will unknown caregivers. If you are a difficult baby then your parents will engage in less sensitive parenting practices even unfamiliar adults will too.
• Thinking about early experiences
• Infant determinism→ what happens to you when you are an infant will set you a particular course and you can’t deviate from that later on (obvi not true) early experiences are important but so are later experiences. IF a child is in a institution and they have certain affects and deficits like their social skills or their brain development etc. if they are then adopted soon you won’t see those deficits anymore and so early experiences don’t set you on a permanent course.
• Childhood fragility→ All these little choices and decisions