Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epigenetics, Empiricism, Legal Drinking Age

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. Developmental psychology is the study of patterns and processes of change in mind and behaviour throughout the lifespan. At western we don"t have anyone who studies the end of the lifespan. We have people who study ages 0-18 but mind and behaviour do not stop deveopming at 18. Describe and explain individual differences in developmental trajectories. If someone is ahead or behind schedule, we try and account for those differences in those growth patterns. Legal drinking age, driving age, schools providing jk, sk, Motor development, physical development, cognitive development, social development, language development, moral development, emotion/regulation, motivation. Quantitative change: implies more, bigger or better but not qualitatively different (smooth road curve) Qualitative (transformational) change from lesser to greater levels of complexity (staircase) Not too many stage like changes left. Argument is we change as a result of experience; linking together co- occuring events (e. g. statistical learning)