PSYC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Child Development Stages, Infant Visual Development, Teratology

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

Document Summary

Lifespan development: physical and cognitive development in utero, in infancy, and in childhood. The study of physical and psychological changes commonly associated with the different stages of our life. Involves measuring and comparing groups of people at different ages at a given point in time. You would select a sample of people and study cognition from infancy to adulthood within that group of people (not the same people) Have the potential confound of cohort effects: people that are different ages, also developed in different time periods: may reflect a number of differences between the people, nutrition, parenting norms, medical advantages, cultural changes, Involves measuring the same group of people at different points of time. These designs are time-consuming and there is a high risk of attrition- the withdrawal of participants form a study over time (called attrition) You would measure your participants over the course of say 20 years: developmental stages.