PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synaptic Pruning, Lead Paint, Dependent And Independent Variables
2 Apr 2016
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How to we change/not change over time: puberty, marriage, aging. What types of things do development psychologists study: emotions, neural, physical, intelligence, personality. Goals: describe and explain, ex, how a child is approaching a task at different ages. Rapid development: more change in children compared to rest of life. Long term influences: how do early experiences affect later development, parenting, producing optimal development, environment. Real world applications: ex, psychologist build sesame street around discoveries from impoverished children to help get to optimal point, lead paint poor intellectual development. Children are different from adults (old theory) Directionality of development: motor skills, vocab (more, means to have less neural (synaptic pruning represents development, change. Continuity vs. discontinuity of development: tiny changes add up, stay the same form but become better at things gradually (skills, relatively uniform rate, some believe development is discontinuous. Changes in a way that is unrecognizable compared to before: quantitative vs. qualitative.
