PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frontal Lobe, Axon Terminal, Harry Harlow
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Developmental psychology: the study of changes in behaviour and mental processes over time and the factors that influence the course of those constancies and changes. Cross-sectional design: research approach that compares groups of different-aged people to another. Cohort effects: cohort is any group of people born at about the same time. Longitudinal design: research approach that follows the same people over a period of time by administering the same tasks or questionnaires and seeing how their responses change. Cohort-sequential design: blended cross-sectional and longitudinal research, designed to look at how individuals from different age groups compare to one another and follow them over time. Nature and nurture: nature: our genetic inheritance, and how much it is influenced by, nurture: term that encompasses the environment around us as well as our experiences as we grow. Maturation: the unfolding of development in a particular sequence and time frame.
