PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reductionism, Formal Language, Natural Selection

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Timothy Racine

Document Summary

Psyc 308 - lecture 10 - the developmental approach. Gibson - thinks there is just one way to understand behaviour - taking developmental approach. There is no typical/standard moment of maturity; besides, we gain our understanding form change & becoming. Study of behaviour should begin before birth & we are beginning to be able to do that, even for cognitive activity like remembering. Program is organized around hallmarks of human behaviour - fundamental properties of human behaviour are the ones that we, as psychologists, need to account for. All of them are present, in at least primitive form, at birth, but also develop, differentiating & elaborating, giving us, as they shift gears/change, a way of studying factors that interact. No, but there"s still a good story to tell. Historically, development meant the unrolling (de-envelopment) of what is already there. Also an epigenetic (developmental) view that rejects the idea that things are preformed.