PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Cultural-Historical Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Concerned with changes in behaviour and abilities across the lifespan. Goals of developmental psychology: descriptive, explanation. Looks at differences but also explains them. Topically: our textbook, multiple domains are developing simultaneously. Really the most change occurs between 0-2 years. Developing simultaneously so you have to draw parallels between stages. Today, childhood = special period of caring, teaching, and protection. Prior to renaissance (14-16 century) childhood short: no child labor laws. Now, back to short: pressure to produce smart successful human beings and it trickles down to kids, sexualizing, higher rates of teen pregnancies and teen suicides. The rate of child poverty in canada has increased from 15. 8% in 1989 to 19% in 2013. Child poverty rates are nearly double for indigenous children, at 40% per cent. Within the last 10 years, over 300 children victims of homicide. 1 in 7 canadians using homeless shelters are children. 2009: 55000 children were victims of sexual/physical assault.