PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Applied Behavior Analysis, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Nikolaas Tinbergen
24 Nov 2016
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Psych 211- chapter 1: history, theory and research strategies notes. Interdisciplinary: large storehouse of information about child development. What are the 3 domains of development: physical. Changes in body size, proportions, appearance, etc: cognitive. Changes in intellectual ability, including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge, etc. : emotional and social. Changes in emotional communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people, etc . Emerging adulthood: age 18 to the mid-to-late-twenties. Become apparent during the past few decades. Theory: an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior. Once a theory helps us understand development, we know how to improve the welfare and treatment of children. Angelo"s thinking may be just as logical and well-organized. Continuous: a process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with. Discontinuous: a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.
