PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Voting Age, Mexican Americans, Ethnic Group
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Reminder: make sure to look at your lecture notes to help understand these objectives/terms as well as your textbook. Understand the contributions of victor"s story (and other wild children" we went over in class) to the field of human development. Kept in closet until 13, strapped to toilet, can"t walk, no social interaction, punished severely for speaking: john, oxana. Found at four years old, comfortable with monkeys, mother killed in front of him, normal today. Ukrainian dog girl, found in 1991 at 8 years old. Abandoned by parents, nature vs. nurture issues, crawled into kennel for warmth one day, made astonishing progress. Know the formal questions posed by developmental psychologists. Qualitative= difficult to quantify, not easily put on paper, difficult to anticipate (changing from nonverbal to verbal communication) Quantitative= number of amount (average height of girl in 2013) can help predict future things. 1787 tiedmann: observed sensory, motor, language, and cognitive behavior, pre-linguistic knowledge, thought sucking was learned, not reflexive.
