PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Phenotypic Trait, Egg Cell, Dishabituation
2 Sep 2018
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Development #1: changes and continuities that occur in individuals between conception and death, maturation, biologically timed unfolding of changes with in individual according to individual genetic plan. Learning: permanent changes in our thoughts, behaviours, and feelings as a result of our experiences, can be controlled but when practiced becomes automatic. Looking chamber of 2 stimuli: measure direction infant is looking to determine attention, competence performance distinction, may fail at a task not because they lack cognitive ability but because they are unable to demonstrate abilities. Longitudinal design: same individuals are studied repeatedly over some subset of their lifespan, advantage: allows researcher to assess developmental changes, disadvantage: expensive/time consuming and practice effects (changes in parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)t"s respo(cid:374)ses due to repeated testi(cid:374)g, cross sectional design. Development #2: monozygotic twins, genetically identical same sperm and ovum, dizygotic twins, share 50% of genes different sperm and ovum, genotype. All babies babbly the same, universal phoneme sensitivity is independent of environment.
