PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Random Assignment, Blind Experiment, Scientific Method
21 Sep 2013
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Unit 1: entering a child"s world (chapters 1 and 2) Studied girls" adjustment to adolescence and challenged accepted views about inevitability of teenage rebellion. Also focused on how cultures define male and female roles. Was a pioneer in cross cultural research: through the accidents of history, these cultures [have] developed so differently from ours that knowledge of them could shed a kind of light upon us, our potentialities and our limitations. Key elements of mead"s story: study of child development is not dry, cross cultural perspective can reveal which patterns of behaviour are universal and which are not, theory and research are two sides of the same coin. Theory: set of logically related concepts or statements which seek to describe or explain development and predict behaviour under certain conditions: are a rich source of hypotheses, change to incorporate new findings. The way theorists explain development depends on two issues .
