PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Peekaboo, Late-Onset Hypogonadism, Red Hair
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What is developmental psychology: the study of patterns of growth and change occurring throughout life. Physical, cognitive, moral, social: studying different aspect of psychology through the span of a human life. The life span: conception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, aging. How do we measure development: cross sectional. Different people in each group test 1 time. Allows you to compare memory performance between the age groups. Could be due to different people not different ages, or a combination to both. Benefit: don"t have to follow people around: cross sequential. Different people in each group test 2 times. Can see the difference between the different age groups and how the people in those age groups change over time: longitudinal. Research in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040. Hard to keep track of people over a span of # years. Benefit: can see what happened at different ages and how they are changing across time.
