PSY100H1 Lecture 2: PSYB20- week 2.doc
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Falsifiability= theory is capable of making future prediction, Heuristic value = doesn"t limit you for only which the theory was devised, can apply the theory outside original cases. Are children innately good or evil, the child does not have a good or evil. Activity vs. passivity: the childs own role in his or her own development, are they active. ?, or are they a passive recipient in what the world throws at them. Continuity: where we see development as being continuous or discontinuous. Graph: smooth growth curve ,and there"s no large jumps. Graph : discontinuous development , discrete steps as they age, Quantitative= changes in degree i. e. height, adding little pieces on, changes in amount. Qualitative = discontinuous , a change in kind, the organism is fundamentally different than they were before i. e. tadpole to a frog , caterpillars to butterflies. Connectedness of development; how much of a relationship/connection between early developmental attributes and later developmental attributes.
