HD Test One 02 11 2014 Chapter One Human Development How people change or remain the same throughout the span of a lifetime Periods of development Prenatal Infancy and toddler Early childhood 2 6 Middle childhood 6 11 Adolescence 11 18 Individual Differences an individual has experiences at different times Ex language abilities in autistic children Reading at 5 or 7 years old Developmental Processes Biological Neurons puberty genetics Cognitive Thoughts intelligence language memory Socio emotional Relationships personality emotions Environmental Neighborhoods moving climate Theories set of prepositions that describe explain and predict a phenomenon Developmental Theories One course universal path Many courses unique paths Continuous quantitative change smooth changing Discontinuous qualitative change long periods of stability brief periods of change different way of doing the same thing Nature genetics biology Nurture environment Evaluating Theories A theory is better if it reflects real world understandable explains past and predicts future is parsimonious more simple theoryshorter directions to the same place and falsifiable theory is better if it can be proven false 02 11 2014 02 11 2014