In today's lecture we will be discussing some general issues in development, including physical development, some parenting issue and models of development, and then moving into a discussion of cognitive development. The slides can be found here.

• General Models of Development as an interaction of hereditary and environmaental/experiential influences.
• Social Development
• Theories of social development
• Early Attachment and its implications
• Cognitive Development
• The work of Jean Piaget
• Subsequent modifications of Piaget's work (the information processing approach).
• Some classic cognitive developmental tasks and their implications for how children understand and operate on the world.
• core knowledge
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