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Intro to Development
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a theory? | it accurately describes a phenomenon, provides an explanation, and generates new/interesting questions |
| what is a scientific theory? | it's based on scientific data, openly debated, and tends to be coherent |
| what is a common sense/naive/folk theory? | it's based on personal experience, less coherent, and has an influence on how you might parent, other people's parenting, interacting with children, etc. |
| what is a stage of development? | refers to a distinct and separate period of development. |
| how is a stage characterized? | qualitative change, discontinuities, clear-cut boundaries, universal across children & cultures, and uniform in "nature within a stage |
| what do theories differ on? | -nature vs. nurture -genes vs. environment (interact from the beginning) -debate about if parents are important or not. maybe genes, peers, the internet, etc. are more important |
| what are the four different areas of development? | motor development, language development, cognitive development, and social development |