Psychology 1000 Lecture 30: Jan 31: Cognitive Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Atkinson

Document Summary

If an individual was completely unable to expereience arousal, but still reported an experience of emotion, ths would argue strongly agaisnt james-lange theory of emotion. How does the brain change in the newborn. There is a huge argument between nature vs nurture: nature maturation and nurture . Obviously, interaction: nature determines the range, nurture chooses the alternatives. Qualitative difference: things happen in one stage cannot happen in the other (like catterpilar into butterfly. Normative: typical sequence of change, look for the consistency; methodology is cross- sectional: one group of this age and one of other age and compare them. Individual: consitency not there, look at the individual; methodology is longitudinal: following an individual in a long period of time. Take a set of kid when they are at 1, and then 2, and then 3 problem is that researchers might not able to follow up . Look at the study and you should know whether it is .