PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Social Learning Theory, Psychodynamics, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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Child development the field seeks to do 2 things look at changes in the child"s social, cognitive and other abilities. Different types of research designscorrelational method type of research that allows scientists to establish relations between variables and see how strong those relations are. Conflicting modification on september 17, 2013, 6:13:47 pm: child development the field seeks to do 2 things look at changes in the child"s social, cognitive and other abilities. Darwin researched children"s emotions and sensory abilities. Why studying child development is important: better policies, advance well-being of children and protect them. Biological vs. environmental continuous vs. discontinuous individual vs. contextual. Influences: debate between biological and environmental factors, watson. Discontinuity: continuous learning takes places based on earlier experiences (builds on top of the other) No abrupt shifts, just a continuous spiral upwards: discontinuous steps in learning each step is different from the one before it (not necessarily building on top of each other, overlapping waves.
