PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prenatal Development, Longitudinal Study, Heredity
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Developmental psychology the scientific study of biological, cognitive, social and personality development through out the life span. Some methods cross sectional vs. longitudinal approaches cross sectional looking at a number of groups at the same time but related to different age groups. Problem: cohort effects differences may not be caused by memory system but can be because of what that generation experienced. Longitudinal study studying same group of people across that life span some may want to stop participating. Problem: slow process because you follow same people and. People develop at different times shows that there is an environmental factor. Half of mother and half of father fertilized egg = zygote stages: germinal, embryonic (brain development occurs**), fetal teratogens environmental agents that cause problems that impair prenatal development (physical conditions, diseases, etc. ) Important times in development critical period (for example language) sensitive periods critical time but less rigid boundaries.
