PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Infant Visual Development, Congenital Heart Defect, Thalidomide

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

Document Summary

The study of physical and psychological changes commonly associated with the different stages of our life. Involves measuring groups of people at a single point in time, but that differ in their age. Have potential confound of cohort effects: people that are different ages also developed in different time periods. Involves measuring the same group of people at different points of time. These designs are time consuming and there is a high risk of attrition: the withdrawal of participants from a study overtime. Lifespan changes that proceed through patterns of stability followed by periods of more rapid transition. The points of rapid change that mark points of transition between developmental stages. Increases the risk of giving birth to lower weight newborns that are more prone to illness and deficits in mental functioning. Babies born during the war experienced a variety of serious physical and psychological problems. Substances that negatively affect the process of development in utero.