PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Relative Risk, Blood Pressure, Confounding

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Heidi Bailey

Document Summary

Chapter 1: introduction to developmental psychology and its research strategies. Systemaic disconinuiies and changes in the individual over the course of life. Systemaic implies that it is orderly and enduring, so temporary mood-swings and transitory changes in appearances, thoughts, and behaviours are excluded. Developmental coninuiies: ways in which we remain stable over ime or coninue to relect our past. Developmental psychology is the largest discipline in the developmental sciences. Developmentalist: any scholar, regardless of discipline (i. e. psychologist, biologist, educator, etc. ) who seeks to understand the developmental process. Maturaion: developmental changes in the body or behaviour that result from the aging process rather than from learning, injury, illness, or some other life experience. Partly responsible for psychological changes (i. e. increasing ability to concentrate, solve problems, etc. ) Explains why humans are so similar in many important respects of ime experiencing the same developmental changes at the same points in our lives.