PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Little Albert Experiment, American Psychological Association
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Take what you observe in documentary and apply to concepts in the course. Identify one way the development can be affected for each of these three areas (1) perceptual (2) motor (3) cognitive & (1) attachment (2) emotional. Niko tinbergen four things you have to know about a phenomenon if you want to have an understanding of things. Mechanisms what are the different components that go into the phenomenon taking places ex. Taking a mechanistic view of sounds, taking mechanistic components of it such as sound waves. Ontogeny (development) we have to ask how that phenomenon developed over time ex. What happened in the factor and how did the radio components get put together. Phylogeny (changes over the course of evolutionary time scale) ex. how has the design of the radio been modified over time to look like radios do today. About characteristics that define stages of life.
