PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Psychology, Child Care, Scientific Method
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Using research to improve children"s and parents" lives. Working on real-world problem, problems people are concerned with. Changes across the human lifespan; developmental populations. Can we identify children with reading problems at an earlier age. Designing and evaluating programs and methods to prevent, reduce negative effects. Bring research to public policy, and making it law. Research on childcare and make it law. Making results available to parents, teachers, lawyers, people working with kids. What"s the amount of memory can a child hold. How much can a child remember in a court case. Design how to question children in court cases, where and when to question, etc. Offering opinions, like this works in this situation; that works in another situation. Difficult to make policy according to the knowledge. Takes too long to answer a questions. Basic doesn"t give clear-cut answers that can be used for practice. Basic research takes a long time to do because they want the answers.
