PSY-PC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Habituation, Teratology

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 1250
• Professor: Amy Booth

Document Summary

Implications for real life context: child testimony in court cases, over 100k children witnesses per year, reason to think trauma might damage or might heighten memory--evidence mixed. Susceptibility up to 10 years of age (especially around age 3-4) Factors to susceptibility: creativity--associated with being more susceptible. [the degree to which intelligence can be shaped by experience] Intelligence--hard to articulate exact definition, in part because many different conceptions. Some people believe domain-general, some believe domain-specific: most common conception of intelligence--to judge, comprehend, and reason well. Do we have any control: how stable does iq score stay over lifetime, **scores on iq tests become pretty stable at about 7 years of age (correlation around . 8) Iq tests taken at 11 years of age (correlation around . 4, same as. Still have to be cautious because these are just correlations (always possibility of 3rd variables being involved); also keep in mind prenatal environment (teratogens associated with attention deficits)