PSY4111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heritability, Monoamine Oxidase A, Repeated Measures Design

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY4111
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Lecture 16 issues and methods in developmental psychology. Early experience vs later experience effect of experience on functioning - Biological view o development is maturation o genetically determined process of growth that unfolds naturally. Environmental view o e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal eve(cid:374)ts shape the course of a child"s develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t o. Genetics/ biology place no restrictions on how a child develops. Development proceeds as an interaction of the two. Critical periods a period of time during which experiences are crucial for a particular feature to emerge in a person. Sensitive periods period of time where the experience is optimal for the development of a particular function, but not critical. A similar function can develop after sensitive period has closed, but needs to be more intense of an experience. Change is both continuous and stage like, so occurs in both drawn out stages and immediate stages of change. Longitudinal same subjects observed over a long period of time.