Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Tabula Rasa, University Of Western Ontario

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

Document Summary

What is developmental psychology psychology is the study of mind and behaviour developmental psych is: patterns and processes of change in mind and behaviour throughout the lifespan development is a lifelong process but we focus on 0-18 years. Developmental psych at uwo there is a developmental cognitive neuroscience module -- look into this. 2 main patterns of development continuous changes: smooth, gradual change getting better over time quantitative change: more, bigger, better numerically different. 2. stage like change qualitative/transformational change structurally different not more, but different change from lesser to greater levels of complexity you can"t go back to the old way. Suppose you want to know if there are beneficial effects of preschool attendance on reading in grade 1. Construct a correlational study to answer the question. compare reading levels of kids in grade 1 of those who were in preschool and those who weren"t.