PSYA02H3 Chapter 10: PSYA02 Chapter 10
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10. 1 physical development from conception through infancy. Developmental psychology study of human physiological, cognitive, social and behavioural characteristics across the lifespan. Studying development requires some special methods for measuring and tracking changes over time. Cross-sectional deign measure and compare samples of people at different ages at a given point in time (ex. To study cognition from infancy to adulthood, you compare and measure ppl of different age groups of 1, 5, 10 and 20 year olds) Longitudinal design development of the same set of individuals through time (ex. Measure cognitive development of infants periodically over the course of say, years: no cohort effects, but takes a lot of money and time consuming. Suffer from attrition where people drop out or move away from the study o. Development - progression of abrupt transitions in physical or mental skills with gradual change. Scientists describe it as a series of stages. o.
