HLTHAGE 2A03 : Psych 1XX3 FULL NOTES.pdf
24 Oct 2013
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Developmental psychologists are interested in understanding how you change over time and also how you stay the same. Maturation: the biologically- timed unfolding of changes within the individual according to that individual"s genetic plan. How that plan unfolds is influenced by specific environmental conditions. Interactionist perspective: emphasizes that most of your developmental changes reflect the interaction of, maturation affects learning maturation and learning. Some essential systems must be in place before learning proceeds. Changes that occur earlier in life are much more dramatic than those occurring later in life. Four ways to measure abilities in infants: habituation procedure. To determine if an infant can detect the difference between two stimuli in novel objects interest in the. Infants normally tend to show environment. When a novel stimulus is presented, an infant will initially show a burst of activity. As the same stimulus is repeatedly presented, the infant"s responses will return to baseline levels.
