Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naturalistic Observation, Random Assignment, Quasi

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Patterns and processes of change in mind and behaviour throughout the lifespan. Development primarily the result of experience linking together co-occurring evens. Prewired learning system for particular kinds of info. Think about language as a good example. Cant develop without nature and nurture duh. Experience can transform biological processes (epigenetics, and hpa reactivity) Biological processes can influence susceptibility to environment influences (orchids[very sensitive to environmental changes, when environment good they do better than average when poor they do worse than average] and dandelions[always come back, robust to changes in environment]) Structure of study and implications for making inference re causal rations between variables. Elimination of cofounding variables (group differences aren"t based on factors like social class etc. ) Quasi- is more like correlation, no random assignment, The bottom line is that the design allows you to know how much causation you can attribute: conflates observational with correlational designs. We can talk about developmental consistency and change.