PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Decibel, Puritans, Behaviorism
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The scientific study of behavior this is not just human behavior but also animal. Behaviors can include social, cognitive, emotional, physical, abnormal, brain, etc. behavior, genetic behavior, etc: these are used to study why various organisms do what they do. What is developmental psychology? experience with the world around them be a positive change or a negative change. The scientific study of change in behavior as the organism grows and gains. Change is an important word here change doesn"t give a direction because it can planet and somewhere between 6-8 months if you don"t use the language neurons, A negative change as we get older is the ability to learn more than one language (when you are born your brain is set up to be able to pick up any language on the. When we are born we have the most synaptic connections and we lose those as we you lose that ability to develop language) get older.