PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Confounding, Field Experiment, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Psyc 2450 chapter 1: introduction to developmental psychology and its research strategies. Systematic continuities and changes in the individual over course of life. 2 processes that underlie developmental change: maturation. Biological unfolding of the individual according to species-typical biological inheritance and an individual person"s biological inheritance. Become capable of walking and uttering first meaningful words at 1. Reach sexual maturity between 11 and 15. Partly responsible for psychological changes ex. increasing ability to concentrate, solve problems and understand other peoples thoughts and feelings: learning. Process through which our experiences produce a relatively permanent changes in our feelings, thoughts and behaviours. Learn to feel, think, and behave in new ways from our observations of and interactions with parents, teachers and other important people and events we experience. Three major goals in developmental psychology: describe, explain and optimize development. Developmentalists seek to understand important ways developing humans resemble.