PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pacifier, Body Odor, Egocentrism
7 Mar 2018
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Psy 101- lecture 10/ development: infancy and childhood. Study how people grow, mature, and how people change across entire lifespan. Major issues in developmental psychology: stability vs. change. Personality traits form in early life and persist throughout life vs. our personalities change as we age: continuity vs. stages. Development happens in gradual way day by day vs. development occurs in stage like sequence over the course of life: nature vs. nurture. Habituation: tendency for attention to a novel stimulus to wane over time. Enables researchers to assess what infants see and remember. Can fetuses discriminate sound: third trimester, fetuses could distinguish sound, decasper and spence (1986) Last 6 weeks, mother"s read out passages from cat in the hat or the king, mouse and cheese. Child was given electronic pacifier, and was read the passages, and they would choose to hear story in headphones read by mother: decasper and fifer (1980); decasper and sigafoos (1983)
