PSY311H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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What is social development: a branch of developmental psychology, sub field that studies, changes over time in the child"s understanding of attitudes, behaviours, actions with others, problem with experimental research is that you cannot manipulate age, stanley hall. Father of american psychology studied the small child"s activities and feelings, control of emotions and will. Incudes affective, cognitive, and social aspects of development: social psychology focuses on how we relate to others and how others influence our behaviours, feelings and thoughts. The child"s own genes might affect what the child does and wants as he/she grows. Incorporations contextual variations into social processes: look at all various influences in the child"s developmental, ex. Bronfenbrenner"s ecology of human development: still major challenges for researchers. Methods of study: change over time is our primary concern, there is no perfect design, so we do a cross-sequential design which uses a bunch of different methods.
