PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Toy Block, Object Permanence

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Mike Moland

Document Summary

The scientific study of changes across the lifespan. Includes a wide range of psychological processes such as: motor, perceptual, conceptual, cognitive, social, emotional, 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 an area of great interest. Developmental psychology can be viewed as a scientific way to address our intrinsic fascination with developmental questions. It looks at the challenges that confront the growing child and asks how they are able to master them. These patterns are the key to understanding what changes over the course of development, what stimulates and constrains development, and what problems develop along the way. The problems facing the developing child require complex solutions beyond the capacities of the most advanced computers, yet most children solve them within the first few years of life.