PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, American Psychological Association
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Slide 2 - the importance of development o. Niko tinbergen - 1 of most important paper in social sci - in last 50-60 yrs. Said that 4 diff things about a phenom if want to have comprehensive understanding, which are related to diff types of questions you ask: Happening now in present state or individuals life that lead to beh or phenomenon being observed. If wanted to know how it works, how it produces sound (being the beh we are interested in) Mechanistic: describe the diff components: speaker, antenna, and how sound wave transformed into sound and so on. Tells you a lot about the mechanism (1) Have to ask how did that phenom develop over time. Evolutionary, but what lead for beh to have it"s current. What is the value for a particular beh for survival and. Slide 3 - infant vs. toddler vs. child vs. adolescent o.
