PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cell Growth, Cognitive Development, Active Child

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Scott Adler

Document Summary

Developmental psychology, lecture 1 (january 5th, 2018) +textbook notes. Types of behaviour: includes social, cognitive (reasoning, decision making etc), physical behaviour (movement, locomotion), abnormal (physical or cognitive), brain etc. Psychology studies all those aspects and the connection between such behaviours. Concerned with changes in behaviour and abilities that occur as development proceeds. Developmental (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h has 2 goals: des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374) (cid:894)ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) (cid:272)hild"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) at ea(cid:272)h poi(cid:374)t(cid:895) a(cid:374)d explanation (determining the causes and the processes that produce changes in behaviour from one point to another including genetic and environmental factors) Rapid development: since developmental psychologists study change, it would makek sense to study the period of time where things change very quickly (nfancy and childhood) Eg. perceptual development (can not see things close to them), language (new words come up every day) Window into adult behaviour: the processing in the brain happens so fast, study such behaviours early in development, we get a better idea of how it would be.