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PSY 3341 EXAM #1
 Chapter 1: Nature of Development
- 3 Domains of Development :
- Biological/Physical Processes –
- Produce changes in an individual’s physical nature. Genes inherited from parents,
the development of the brain, height and weight gains, nutrition, etc. are all examples of
biological processes.
- Changes in body and in ways a person uses his or her body.
- Effects of aging
- Genes/environment, prenatal, physical self, perception, sexuality, death.
- Cognitive Processes –
- Refer to changes in the individual’s thought process, intelligence, and language. For
example, putting together a two-word sentence, memorizing a poem, imagining what it
would be like to be a movie star all involve cognitive processes.
- Involves gains, declines, and changes in reasoning and thinking, language,
acquisition, and the ways individuals gain, store, and remember or recall knowledge of
environments.
- Cognition/Piaget, Learning and Memory, Intelligence, Language and Achievement
- Socioemotional/Psychosocial Processes –
- Involve changes in the individual’s relationship with other people, changes in
emotions, and changes in personality. An infant’s smile in response to a parent’s touch, a
toddler’s aggressive attack on a playmate, a school-age child’s development of
assertiveness, and the affection of an elderly couple all reflect the influence of
socioemotional processes on development.
- Concerns changes in feelings and emotions as well as changes in how individuals
relate to other people
- Personality, Gender, Social Cognition and Moral, Attachment, Family
- How Biological, Cognitive, and Socioemotional are connected:
- They are bidirectional – they can influence one another.
- They are inextricably intertwined.
- How does your textbook define development?:
- Development –
- The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues
through the human life span.