PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Low Birth Weight, Teratology, Fetus
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Psy302, secion 011 (dr. ma) |child development | january 16, 2015 | lecture 2. Sessions 1 & 2: developmental research methods: ii. Methods for studying preverbal infants: major research measures. People of diferent ages studied at the same point in ime. Cohort efect: the paricular impact of a group of people founded by ime or common life experiences. 80 year olds are tested for technological apitude, 80 year olds have not been exposed to modern technology as much. Time period may be brief (6 months 1 year) The amount of ime babies spend looking at diferent simuli. If they consistently look longer at one, it tells us 2 things: They can tell the diference between the two. They prefer to look at one over the other. Associaing male voice with male image, female voice with female image. Looking longer at the atracive face than the plain-looking face.
