PSYCH 1XX3 Midterm: module notes first half
22 Feb 2017
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Second half of the course explores how these biological foundations interact with the environment to shape sensory systems and behaviors critical to survival. Development : refers to the changes and continuities that occur within the individual between conception and death. Developmental psychologists are not only interested in understanding how you change over time but also in how you stay the same. Genetic plans determine the timeline of development: e. g. Learning processes allow you to acquire new information and guide optimal strategies to respond to events and stimuli in the environment. Interactionist perspective : the view that holds that maturation and learning interact during development. Most of your developmental changes reflect the interaction of maturation and learning. Four ways to measure abilities in infants: habituation procedure. Determines whether an infant can detect the difference between 2 stimuli. Infants tend to show interest in novel objects in the environment. Dishabituation communicated the ability to perceive different stimuli.
