PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Distant Relatives, Ecological Validity, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Second, the field attempts to uncover processes that underlie these changes to help explain why and how they occur. In other words, developmental psychologist are interested in what things change as children get older, and how these changes come about. (cid:1) Charles darwin: conducted research on infants" sensory capacities and young children"s emotions. In his research on infants" early sensory and perceptual capacities and children"s emotions he clearly demonstrated that scientists could study infants and children. John b watson later continued the formal analysis of children"s learning capacities. Using his own daughter as a subject, baldwin examined and published papers on topics such as handedness, will, and imitation in infancy. The opening of the saint george school for child psychology in 1926 which still operates today as an institute of child psychology. St. george"s school was initially headed by developmental psychologist william emet blatz, who later became known for his three-year study of the dionne quintuplets.
