PSYC 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: X Window System
23 Mar 2016
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Concerned with changes in how the mind works during the course of development: involves typical development and individual diferences, involves experimental, correlaion and case study methodology, involves behavioural and neuroscience evidence. Major theoreical issues: nature vs nurture. Is there core or original knowledge: domain speciic vs domain general abiliies. Development of speciic cogniive modules for number, space, language, etc. Development for general abiliies working memory, inhibiion, processing speed: constraints on learning. What is the relaionship between constraints and cogniive change: interacion of cogniive and social development. How does a theory of mind develop: cogniive developmental neuroscience.
