PSY311H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Behavioural Genetics, Eye Color, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Good- within subjects design- age differences are not attributable to between subject. Bad- practice effects (repeated measures), practical difficulties, attrition: cross sectional designs (study different people at one time) differences. Historical perspective: evolutionary development of the field, three periods of social development research, emergence: baby biographies-same questions as today but different methods, middle period: Maturationalist approach: chart and describe the unfolding of endowed characteristics. Socialization: psychoanalytic and sociological theory- how do adults contribute to child determine how the child learns growth and development. Structuralist approach: piaget, kohlberg-social processes are important and child is an. Normative-descriptive focus resulting in stage theories: modern era active agent. Transformations in social developmental research: specifying developmental processes- the search for processes. Mediational processes in social development: structural reorganization of thought and action (piaget, kohlberg) as developmental change agents: expanded view of regulatory processes: -socialization (shift away from exclusive top down processes) Methods of study: change over time is primary concern.
