Psychology 2410A/B Lecture 1: Intro to Developmental Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: patterns and processes of change in mind and behaviour throughout the lifespan: particularly in ages 0-18, however the mind and behaviour continues to change across the entire lifespan. Normative development how does the average person change over time over some aspect of thinking or behaviour. Evidence based someone has shown through research that the intervention works. Social policy issues involving children and teens: gender identity, gender reassignment, legal drinking age, driving age, educational policy. A smooth curve from one to the next. Stage-like change qualitative or transformational change from lesser or greater levels of complexity. Empiricist perspective the argument that people change as a result of experience, making connections between co-occurring events. A general learning process of things that go together. Nativist perspective humans come prewired for particular kinds of information. eg. grammar in the instance of language.