PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Field Experiment, Blind Experiment, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Chapter 2: a child"s world: how we discover it. Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain and predict data. Inspire further research and predict its results by generating hypotheses, tentative explanations or predictions. Possible explanations for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of. Children grasp experiences and this input molds them over time. People create experiences and are motivated to learn about the world around. Views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli. People are like machines that react to environmental input. Predicts human behavior based upon internal and external forces at work. Seeks to identify the factors that make people behave as they do. Views human development as internally initiated by an active organism and as occurring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages. People initiate events, do not just react to them. Environmental influences can speed or slow development.
