PSY 202 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Human Development
15 Feb 2017
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Developmental psychology - study of how behaviour changes over the lifespan. Post-hoc fallacy - false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. Although 100% of serial killers drank milk as children, drinking milk does not make serial killers. Children"s experiences influence their development, but their development influences their experiences. Cross-sectional design - research design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time. These designs do not control for cohort effects. Cohort effects - effect observed in a sample of participants that result from individuals in the sample growing up at the same time. Effects due to the fact that sets of people who lived during one time period, called cohorts, can differ in some systematic way from sets of people who lived during a different one. Baby boomers grew up in a very different way than those born in the 21st century.
