PSYC 333 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fetoscopy, Social Forces, Bobo Doll Experiment
22 Apr 2017
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The study of constancy and change throughout lifespan. The field of developmental science: scientific: method to answer questions about the subject. Example: hypothesis testing, observe, predict, control (goals): applied: knowledge acquired is applied to any different fields (medicine, education). Interdisciplinary: grown through the combined efforts of people from many fields of study. Researchers from psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, and neuroscience joined with professionals from education, family studies, medicine, public health, and social service. Theory: an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior. Continuous: a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with. (smooth curve from birth to adulthood) Discontinuous: a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times. (steps starting at birth, going up to adulthood) Context: unique combination of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change. everybody develops the same way e. g. , freud stages.
