PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Cardiotocography, Egocentrism
1 Sep 2016
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The scientific study of changes across the lifespan. Includes a wide range of psychological processes including motor, perceptual, conceptual, cognitive, social, emotions and language development. Understanding what newborns can see or hear or understand and how they add to their knowledge and abilities as they age is interesting. Developmental psychology can be viewed as a scientific way to address our intrinsic fascination with developmental question. Gives insight into universal human nature: what is universally common across species, how deviations from environments effect development. Yields a better understanding of adult processes: language development may shed light on the adult language, real world applications result from research. Visual acuity: the sharpness of vision based on the ability to see the contrasts in the world that represent lines, shapes, and shadows. Preferential looking method: researchers find that infants prefer to orient to larger things they can see over smaller things.
