PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Ethology, Confirmation Bias
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Tests will contain 20 multiple choice only from textbooks, and then you can choose 10 out of 13 de nition questions, and 8 out of 10 short answers derived from lectures. Assignment will be a 10 page literature review, in which you will have to answer some research question by reviewing the literature form the past research. What is social development: it is a branch of developmental psychology, not social psychology, this sub eld studies: Changes over time in the child"s understanding of attitudes toward, and actions with others (hartup, 1991). We will talk a lot about age changes, but it is important to understand that we cannot manipulate age, so we cannot use it as x variable, and we can only record the behaviour that we observe. First of all, they are changing very quickly, which makes it interesting to study it.
