PSYC 101 Lecture 7: Development
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Class notes: september 29th, 2016: developmental psychology. Is it linear or are they stages: william james (19th century, most famous american psychologist) describes the. Think we"re born into the world without a clue to what the world is, there are no preprogrammed instincts of humans. Study done on babies (mean age: 53 minutes; 2 times as long) on how much time they spent looking at two different pictures. In 1964, documentaries found 14 children in britain to make a documentary about life in the country at the time. Through the lives of these children, we can see some of the developmental models of stability vs. change: example 1: paul. Illustrates, to some degree, the stochastic model of developmental continuity vs. change. Can experience rapid changes in developmental course from environment. This kid started off like oh boy you"re in trouble then he met his wife, and he started shooting upward.
