PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 1: LEC 1 Developmental-Psychology-Tuesday-September-8th-2015 copy
27 May 2016
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Primary variable is age, before and after marriage and puberty (it"s a developmental period), ex. Some 3 yo go to jk and some don"t and that might effect cognitive development. What types of things do development psychologists study intro development course. Goals: describe - learn whats going and why its going on, explain how they are approaching task why can do at one age and not another. Rapid development everything happening so fast, watch changes and understand why happening, more change in kids than humans in rest of their lives. Long-term influences how do early experiences effect later development, certain parenting effect socio development, how set things up to produce optimal development, what environment is best for kids in terms of optimal development. Real-world applications 1. sesame street is result of research development sesame street had major effects on exact target group researchers predicted 2.
