PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Executive Functions, Emotional Expression, Internal Control
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Lecture 1 introduction to developmental psychology (and research methods) A formal definition: behaviour) that individuals undergo from the moment of conception until they die. Developmental psychology is the discipline that seeks to identify and explain the changes (in. Not only catalogue the sequence of changes people undergo, but also the mechanisms of change (what are the causes of the sequential stages of development) Babies are actually quite sophisticated reasoners (continuously learning things), making qualitative judgements o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s (cid:858)good a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)il(cid:859) (cid:894)sophisti(cid:272)ated (cid:373)o(cid:396)al (cid:396)easo(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:895) there are origins of this from birth. Children are systematically exploring their environments to figure out the nature of everything around them in both social and physical domains. Tedtalk: alison gotnik children are actively exploring the environment in a sophisticated way, much like scientists and experiments. Ba(cid:271)ies a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) a(cid:396)e (cid:395)uite (cid:271)ad a(cid:374)d (cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g do(cid:449)(cid:374) to just o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g, (cid:271)ut they(cid:859)(cid:396)e good at taking in lots of information from several sources.
