PSYC 2060U Lecture 1: Lecture 1 Notes
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Slide 9: development change over time, ability becomes more sophisticated. Learning fractions helps learn calculus (math skills development) or baking; adding mixtures of a recipe and creating something new (cake). This involves both qualitative (type/ kind-motor development) and quantitative (amount) changes. Development language (words, sentences, grammar) involves both qualitative and quantitative changes. Slide 10: why should we study development to understand how we develop from infants to adults. Future predictions help people follow the path for a healthy development. In order to reach adulthood, we need to survive childhood and adolescence. Continuity what the nature of development is. Individual differences how a person comes to have different characteristics. Active/passive question whether children are active by their roles or passive by roles. Slide 12: continuous vs. discontinuous gradual vs. abrupt. Qualitative vs. quantitative changes in quantity vs. changes in quality. Development is both continuous (gradual) and discontinuous (stage-like).
