PSY 376 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Dev Alahan, Investigational New Drug, Amplitude Modulation
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10:09 am: not the study of (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Forces in development: biological, psychological, sociocultural, life-cycle. Lifelong plasticity: change in resp to experience. Shaped by culture: nature nurture, must be studied by many disciplines. Subculture even within one country (cid:862)rite of passage(cid:863: change of status, age norms, the way someone should act. Influences peoples decisions on what to do in diff parts of their life: social clock, guideli(cid:374)e of if you"re ahead or (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is dictated by social norms. Lower classes reach life milestone quicker: poverty is damaging to development, 1/5 children, 1/3 colored. Scientific method: belief that investigators should allow systematic observations to determine merits of their thinking, generating ideas and testing them through observation, theory, concepts and propositions intended to describe and explain phenomena. Internally consistent, falsifiable, supported by data: process, hypothesis, come from theories. Sample: group of people studied, random sampling.
