PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethology, Repeated Measures Design, Social Change
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We are not going to talk much about adolescence, but we are going to focus on childhood (birth to 12 years). We are also not going to be focusing on child psychopathology but normative development. But we are talking about a specific branch of development psychology. Subfield that studies: changes overtime in the child"s understanding of, attitudes toward, and actions with others hartup, 1991. Age is an interesting and key variable we cannot manipulate time. We cannot study age experimentally but rather correlation ally: the small child"s activities and feelings, control of emotions and will stanley hall. How do we control emotion what are the factors that gradually allow a child to control his or her emotions. Include affective, cognitive, and social aspects of development. i. e. we need attachments: we cannot completely separate these aspects from social development. Social psychology: focuses on how we relate to others and how others influence our behaviour, feelings, and thoughts.
