PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tangled, Puzzle Video Game, Object Permanence

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Tsasha Awong

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Development - chapter 10: development refers to changes in humans over time. E. g. physical, cognitive, and psychosocial (these represent different domains of development: what is the nature of these changes? (not all change is developmental change!) Try to avoid thinking about only uni-directional (one-way influence) e. g. parental behaviour child behaviour. Just as a (cid:272)aregi(cid:448)er(cid:859)s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e the (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s gro(cid:449)th, the (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristics and actions influence the parent An assumption that the first few years are most important for our lives as adults: childhood fragility. An assumption that children are easily damaged by certain experiences. Children often show resiliency in the face of adversity. Just because a seems to appear before b, assuming that a b. A couple gets divorced when their child is an infant; child is later diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum. We (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t sa(cid:455) that the di(cid:448)or(cid:272)e autistic disorder. All the more reason why we need good research designs