PSYCH-UA 34 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Marjorie Rhodes, Developmental Science
22 Aug 2016
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2. rearing and educating children informing policy about children insights into human nature children in legal system: are they a reliable witness? basic memory processes. What is child dev: human development: many perspectives, developmental psych: change and continuity in behavior and mental states during lifespan, basic mental processes that de ne our developmental stages, language dev, social dev. Three traditional domains: physical: reaching, sitting up, rolling over, cralling relation to walking, cognitive, emotional and social: how they understand, experience. Course objectives: child development: to learn how to ask a well-formed question. How has the child"s previous experiences with a car in uence his interaction with one in a different context. How does that child perceive the car? as a toy or a car: to learn how to design a study to test a question. Interacting with the toy that would make it function like car: to learn how to interpret data. Differences are signi cant means they are reliable.
