PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anencephaly, Habituation, Retina
30 Sep 2016
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Most research revolves around studying behaviours in a single point of time. Page | 1 interested in how characteristics and abilities interact with a situation producing behaviour. Development psychologists look at how these characteristics and abilities develop, change and are utilized overtime. Developmental psychology is a perspective that is connected to all other areas on psychology. Developmental psychology focuses on the changes individuals experience during the lifespan. Much of this field of psychology focuses on early years because majority of changes occur during this time. However, developmental psychology applications are applicable to all ages because changing is never stopped but speed of change varies. Developmental psychologists use the experimental method much less often because it is extremely difficult to control all extraneous variables. For example: the acquisition of language does not occur in a vacuum. It is also hard to control whether a particular process affects another.
