PSY1011 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Flexibility, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Mary Ainsworth
16 Jul 2013
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Study about how the behaviour changes over the life span. False assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. Eg: concluding that because 100% of serial killers drank milk, milk creates killers. Design in which researchers examine people of different ages at a single point in time. Effect that sets of people who lived in one set of time can differ to another group of people. Design that examines development in the same group of people on multiple occasions over time. The impact of genes on behaviour depends on the environment in which the behaviour develops. Genetic predispositions can drive us to select and create particular environments, leading to the mistaken appearance of a pure effect of nature. Study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate and remember. Maintaining a balance between our experience of the world and our thoughts about it.
