PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Jean Piaget, Sex Organ

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

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Developmental psychology: study of how behaviour changes over the lifespan. Mistake of assuming that because a comes before b, a must cause b. Child(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e thei(cid:396) de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)ut thei(cid:396) de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t also i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Children change their environments by acting in ways that create changes in the behaviours of the people around them. Cross-sectional design: design in which researchers examine people who are of different ages at a single point in time. O(cid:271)tai(cid:374) a (cid:862)s(cid:374)apshot(cid:863) of ea(cid:272)h pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) at a si(cid:374)gle age. Do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol (cid:272)oho(cid:396)t effe(cid:272)ts: effects due to the fact that sets of people who lived in one time period (cohorts) can differ in some way from other people who lived in a different time period. Longitudinal design: psychologists track the development of the same group of participants over the time. Allows the true developmental effects: changes over time within individuals as a consequence of growing older.