Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prenatal Development, Developmental Psychology, Morning Sickness
10 Apr 2020
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The scientific study of systematic change across the lifespan. How physical and psychological attributes change over lifespan. Mechanisms of change - what are the processes by which change occurs etc. Societal point of view - developing theories of development, predicting patterns of. Identify initial states, end states, and most importantly the changing states in between growth can be utilized to create better policies, organizations, innovations to improve humans in our culture. Taking diff age groups and comparing the groups to each other all at one point in time. Look at the same people at different age groups and compare them. Has many issues: e. g. - people in the group moving away, a stressor event in life that may change the results. Takes a long time to do this study - this example would be a 60 year period. In humans, normally approx 36-38 weeks or (266-280 days) Conception to 2 weeks - ends with implantation.
