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Topic 1
Developmental Periods
Preschool (18 months - 4 years)
Rapid development of social skills, language, memory and reasoning
Rapid brain growth at this period
School age (young [5-7 yrs], old [8-12 yrs])
gaining greater experience
Understanding more complex ideas, use of abstract reasonign such as maths
Infancy
Adolescence
Prenatal (Conception-Birth)
Looks at experience in the womb
Adulthood
Importance of Developmental Psychology
Helps to understand what babies are capable of
Nativist view - what mechanisms they are born with
Empiricist view - what is the potential developmental dejectory and how does the environment impact this
Helps understand something about ourselves
Helps create important understanding of biological and social factors
Helps prevent and create early interventions for developmental disorders
Helps inform social policy