PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Escalade, Emotional Security, Semen Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

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Developmental approach: focus is on change over time (over the life span) Developmental psychology: examines our physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span, with a focus on three major issues: nature and nurture, continuity and stages: a. Is change characterized by: continuity a gradual cumulative change. Skinner all behavior changes are quantifiable: stages a sequence of discontinuous and qualitative changes. Represent stage theorist: stage theories have a dominant theme for behaviors at each stage, each stage has qualitatively different behaviors (every child goes through each stage in the same order, stability and change, eg. Development: many aspects can be increasing in some skills and functions (babies) where as other can be decreasing other skills and functions (become old) Our ability to take in new information slows down around the mid-twenties. Gaze time, heart rate, sucking rate, head turning. Habituation is a decreased responding with repeated stimulation. Results: newborns prefer sights& sounds that facilitate social responsiveness.