Chapter OneHuman Development: How people change or remain the same throughout the span of a lifetimePeriods of developmentPrenatalInfancy and toddlerEarly childhood (2-6)Middle childhood (6-11)Adolescence (11-18)Individual Differences: an individual has experiences at different timesEx: language abilities in autistic childrenReading at 5 or 7 years oldDevelopmental ProcessesBiologicalNeurons, puberty, geneticsCognitiveThoughts, intelligence, language, memorySocio-emotionalRelationships, personality, emotionsEnvironmentalNeighborhoods, moving, climateTheories: set of prepositions that describe, explain, and predict a phenomenonDevelopmental TheoriesOne course (universal path)Many courses (unique paths)Continuous (quantitative change): smooth changingDiscontinuous (qualitative change): long periods of stability, brief periods of change-different way of doing the same thingNature (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 theory-shorter directions to the same place), and falsifiable (theory is better if it can be proven false)HD Test One 02/11/2014Chapter OneHuman Development: How people change or remain the same throughout the span of a lifetimePeriods 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 childrenReading at 5 or 7 years oldDevelopmental ProcessesBiological -Neurons, puberty, geneticsCognitive-Thoughts, intelligence, language, memorySocio-emotional-Relationships, personality, emotionsEnvironmental-Neighborhoods, moving, climateTheories: set of prepositions that describe, explain, and predict a phenomenonDevelopmental TheoriesOne course (universal path)Many courses (unique paths)Continuous (quantitative change): smooth changingDiscontinuous (qualitative change): long periods of stability, briefperiods 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 theory-shorter directions to the same place), and falsifiable (theory is better if it can be proven