[Psychology 2410A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (107 pages long!)

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

Document Summary

What is developmental psychology: developmental psychology patterns and processes of change in mind &behavior throughout the lifespan. What do developmental psychologists do: describe &explain normative development, create developmental trajectories, explain individual differences in developmental trajectories. Interventions that are proven to work due to previous successes/prior evidence: what are some social policy issues involving children or teens, gender reassignment, legal drinking age, legal driving age, educational policies. Interpersonal relationship skills: motor development (body and action, physical development, cognitive development, language development, moral development, perception, emotion/regulation, regulation=important to success, motivation. Patterns of development: 2 patterns of development, continuous change, quantitative change. Implies more, bigger, or better but not qualitatively different: numerically different, stage-like change, qualitative (transformational) change from lesser to greater levels of complexity. Some people have genetics that determine they will do really well in some environments, but not well in others. Research methods and research designs: methods procedures for gathering data (measurement, surveys/questionnaires, observations, give tests, tasks fmris.