PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Y Chromosome, Sensation Seeking, Color Blindness
29 Mar 2018
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Psychology 1xx3: development i and ii january 8th, 2018. Development: refers to the changes and continuities that occur within the individual btw conception and death: developmental psychologists are not only interested in understanding how you change over time, but also how you stay the same. Maturation: the biologically-timed unfolding of changes within the individual; how that plan unfolds in in uenced by speci c environmental conditions that shape the genetically-determined processes. Learning: the acquisition of neuronal representations of new information. Interactionist perspective: the view that holds that maturation and learning interact during development. Infants prefer looking at big patters wit many black/white contrasts, as well as human faces. Competence-performance distinction: an individual may fail a task not because they lack those cognitive abilities, but because they are unable to demonstrate those abilities. A developmental study would look at how remembering a list of numbers changes with age.
