PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Developmental Psychology, Big Questions, Suggestibility
27 Jan 2016
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Give someone a piece of cake that they cannot touch until prof says. An approach to studying psychology, rather than a domain of psychology. Studies all of the pieces of the psychology. They are always another type of psychology as well as developmental. Refers to the systematic pattern of continuity and change that we see in individuals across the lifespan. Example: difference between people but all tend to share very similar changes through life, such as we all grow and get bigger and smaller those are improvements. Changes include both improvements and declines in our knowledge and skills. Example of decline is when older people lose their memory. Physical and psychological characteristics that we inherit from our parents through genes. Sum total of the external conditions that influence a child"s development. Examples: nutrition, where you live, family members, prenatal exposures (healthy mom vs. drug mom) It starts at the start of the life of the child.
