PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montessori Education, Puritans, Experimental Psychology
9 Sep 2016
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Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour: behaviour includes social, cognitive, emotional, physical, and neural behaviours, each can be examined in isolation or together with others. For example, the ability to learn new languages decreases with age. Most developmental research is focused on infants and children. From 3 to 6 months, perceptual abilities develop rapidly. Things that develop rapidly are more sensitive to outside influences during that period: long term effects of early experiences. Things that happen during the first 3 years of life are critical. 12-year study from us showed that social development actually decreased in daycare while cognitive development improved: window into adult development. For example, the ability to retrieve memory works slower in children than in adults so can examine the process by which humans retrieve things from memory: real world applications. For example, adults today do not retain as much information from e-books as they do from paper books: the starting point.
