PSYC-105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prenatal Development, Ejaculation, Menarche
3 Mar 2016
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Developmental psychology the study of how behaviour changes over time. Special considerations: post hoc fallacy false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. Children"s development influences their experiences, but their experiences are also influenced by their development (bidirectional influences) Cross-sectional design examine people of different ages at a single time point. Longitudinal design track the development of the same group of people over time: able to control for cohort effects: group differences that do not generalize across populations, different environments, geography, or social environments. It depends on the type of experiment/study is being conducted. Infant determinism assumption that extremely early experiences are more influential in our development than later experiences: actually, experience shapes us throughout development. Childhood fragility assumption that children are extremely delicate. Plasticity children have a better chance of bouncing back from a traumatic event. Gene-environment interaction the impact of genes depends on the environment in which the behaviour develops.
