PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nikolaas Tinbergen, American Psychological Association
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Unless you see development occurring, you don"t fully understand it. Niko tinbergen wrote a paper asking 4 questions; 2 involving proximate causes and 2 involving ultimate causes: proximate causes: Mechanism- the structures and processes that underpin a behaviour. What are the different components that go into each. How each part of a radio contributes to the phenomenon? function of the whole device. Tells you a lot about the mechanisms of a whole and how each component plays a role. How the parts of a radio came together: ultimate causes: How radios have changed and updated over time. Function- how the behaviour contributes to survival and reproduction. Many factors go into forming the constellation definition of each: chronological (age, physical (growth, perception and cognition. Basic themes that characterized developmental psychology began to emerge. Plato: experience triggers knowledge of concrete objects (eg. animals) and abstract concepts (eg.
