PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa
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Change-what we know what we are capable of doing. Rise of the moral evaluation of children. -recognize it is worse than killing adults. The children are both radically different to us and radically relevant to us. Radically continuous with us. --- but in ancient world, children make sense of their environment by studying them, we can study current adult stage. One view, children are not fundamentally difft from us. 5 basic reasons why you want to study child psy: understand how it is changing-childhood. By studying how dominant changes find impt , otherwise hidden properties. study of qualitative in sth. as complex as human cognition cognition is developed. Studying cognition is central to our understanding of adult behavior: by unifying concepts explain the world-unified explanations are more powerful. Often we can unify our explanations of differences in current behavior by tracing things back to a common origin.
