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INTRO:
Define:
Cross-cultural studies:
- examine the similarities and differences between cultures
- use field data collected from many societies to test various psychological
theories and hypotheses under diverse cultural conditions.
- Cross-cultural studies are those in which participants from different cultural or
subcultural backgrounds are observed, tested, and compared on some aspect
(or aspects) of human development.
Nature vs. nurture debate: The question of whether nature, genetically inherited
characteristics, or nurture, a person’s environment is more important in
determining the course of human development.
BODY:
Physical Development:
#1: Jerome Kagan - one of the major developmental biologists of the twentieth
century
- Infants in an isolated Indian village in Guatemala are kept inside the family’s
windowless hut for the first year of life in the belief that sunshine and air will
cause sickeness. They have little opportunity to crawl about, and their
parents seldom play with them. When these children are allowed to leave the
hut, they are behind American children in physical skills. However, they do
catch up and by the age of 3 are as well-coordinated as other children
(Kagan and Klein, 1973)
#2:
Kagan concluded that children are very adaptable and that their biology
promotes a regular developmental progression even under unfavourable
circumstances
Cognitive Development:
Moral Development:
Define: the process through which individuals develop proper attitudes and
behaviours toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms,
rules and laws.
Social Development:
CONCLUSION:
REFERENCES:
http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/355/Jerome-Kagan.html