PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development, Birth Weight
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Module 10. 1 physical development from conception through infancy. Developmental psychology: the study of human physical, cognitive, social, and behavioural characteristics across the lifespan. Cross-sectional design: used to measure and compare samples of people at diff ages at a given point in time. For ex in order to study cognition from infancy to adulthood, you could compare people of diff age groupssuch as 1-, 5-, 10-, and 20- years old. Longitudinal design: follows the development of the same set of individuals through time. With this study you would select a sample of infants and measure their cognitive develop periodically over the course of 20 years. They both have diff strengths and weaknesses: Cross-sectional designs are cheap and easy to administer, and they allow a study to be done quickly. They can suffer from cohort effects which are diffs between people that result from being born in diff time periods.
