PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blind Experiment, Dependent And Independent Variables, Econometrics
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Seeks to understand how and why people change and how they stay the same as they grow older. Use data, analysis and methods similar to other sciences from people of all cultures, income levels and backgrounds. In understanding change, we seek all types of change: growth, radical transformations, improvement and decline. Plasticity: human traits can be 1) molded, yet people still 2) maintain a certain durability. Dynamic systems approach: human development is an ongoing, every-changing interaction between the individual and the environment. The need for replication: repeating a study, usually using different participants. Scientist hesitate to draw conclusions or to believe the results of others" research until replication has occurred although the media reports on results before replication (i. e. vaccinations and autism) there are many types of change. Linear change: is the process in which change occurs in a gradual, regular and predictable sequence. Development speeds up, slows down depending on which aspect of development we are examining.
