PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Forces, Life Review, Moral Development

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

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Chapter 5 developing through the life span. Developmental approach: focus is on change over ime (over lifespan) Developmental psychologists: many areas of study (physical, social, cogniive) A gradual cumulaive change: change is quanity, skinner: coninuous process shaped by punishment and rewards. Stages of disconinuous and qualitaive change: quality not quanity o. Dominant theme to behaviors at each stage: qualitaively diferent behaviors at each one o. All children will progress through stages in same order (invariable: stability vs change. Studied by following people throughout lifeime (personality tests) This study shows the ability or not to perceive simuli, preference, habituaion etc. Habituaion is a diminished response with repeated simulaion. Results: newborns prefer sights and sounds that facilitate social responsiveness. Newborns hear well and can detect the diference between 2 tones only 1 note apart and recognize their mothers voice. Prefer human faces vs other patern (gaze ime)