PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Physical Strength, Developmental Psychology
12 Sep 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Nature everything that is determined by genetic building blocks: biology is the reason people act the way they do. Nurture: people behave the way they do because of information provided to them by others (e. g. parents) Gender differences: physical strength, aggression, visuospatial skills, empathy, male vs. female infants, males are: Less able to maintain eye contact: affective regulation difficulty. Less self-soothing: more lability, few smiles; more irritability, crying, facial grimacing, sex drives. Cohort refers to people who are put together in one unit and go through the same situation: e. g. young age, middle age, old age cohorts. Studying development over the life span: basic research design, cross-sectional research, compare different groups in one period of time (e. g. in 2016, compare 18 y/o to. 26 y/o to 60 y/o: longitudinal research, following someone throughout time, cross-sequential research, combo of cross-sectional and longitudinal research.
