PSY100H1 Chapter 9: very detailed notes for Chapter 9, 11, 16
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For instance, infants use movement to infer that objects that move together are continuous: we are born with certain numerical abilities: ability to understand quantity, infants remember longer as they got older. By 18 mnths, they remember things for weeks: infantile amnesia- inability to remember events from early childhood, source amnesia- forgetting where you learned smthg. I should steal the drug, b/c its against the law to steal : postconventitional level- responses centre around complex reasoning. Sometimes ppl have to break the law, if the law is unjust . Moral emotions: shame, guilt, empathy (emerge after primary emotions such as joy) Development is considered from a life-span perspective. Challenges grow as we get older, and they add meaning to our life! Mar ried people tend to be healthier and live longer. b/c of support influence of behaviour (eating habits) Socioemotional selectivity theory- as ppl grow older, they perceive time to be limited.
