PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prenatal Development, Time Point, Gene Expression
12 Mar 2018
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Developmental psychology: the study of how behavior changes over time. Special considerations: post hoc fallacy: false assumptions that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event, bidirectional influences: childre(cid:374)"s development influences their experiences, but their experiences also influence their development. Track the development of the same group of people over time: able to control for cohort effects, tedious, attrition participants stop taking part of the study. Why might the 50+ age group do worse in technological knowledge than the 20yr olds) Infant determinism: assumption that extremely early experiences are more influential in our development than later experiences: actually, experience shapes us throughout development. Childhood fragility: assumption that children are extremely delicate: children are actually very resilient. Gene-environment interaction the impact of genes depends on the environment in which the behavior develops. Nature via nurture: genetic predispositions can drive us to select and create particular environments: this often appears to be a pure effect of nurture.
