PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visual Acuity, Animism, Depth Perception

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Benjamin Cheung, Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

Developmental psychologists study the physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout a person"s lifespan. Three issues that cannot be concluded for sure from this field of study are: the relative impact of genes and experience on development, 1: whether development is best described as gradual and continuous or as a sequence of separate stages, whether personality traits remain stable or change over the life span. Developmental stages are periods during which physical or psychological functioning differs qualitatively from that of either earlier or later periods. A critical period is a sensitive time in organism"s development when an organism may acquire/change particular behavior on the occurrence of certain stimuli or events. Nature-nurture controversy - long-standing debate over relative importance of heredity and learning in many aspects of functioning. John locke a british philosopher believed that human infants are born without knowledge or skills and learn to acquire them throughout life.