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 normaive development. But we are talking about a speciic branch of development psychology. Subield that studies: changes overime in the child"s understanding of, aitudes toward, and acions with others hartup, 1991 age is an interesing and key variable we cannot manipulate ime. We cannot study age experimentally but rather correlaion ally: the small child"s aciviies and feelings, control of emoions and will stanley hall. How do we control emoion what are the factors that gradually allow a child to. Include afecive, cogniive, and social aspects of development. control his or her emoions: i. e. we need atachments, we cannot completely separate these aspects from social development. Social psychology: focuses on how we relate to others and how others inluence our behaviour, feelings, and thoughts.
