PS275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heredity, Informed Consent, E.G. Time
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Chapter 1 introduction to developmental psychology and its research strategies. Why do we develop: two process that underlie developmental change, 1. What goals do developmentalists pursue: three major goals of the developmental sciences, 1. Describe development: human developmentalists carefully observe the behaviour of people of different ages, seeking to specify how people change over time, to describe development, you have to focus on, normative development typical pattens of change. Ideographic development individual variations in patterns of change: descriptions provide facts about development but its only a starting point, 2. Influenced research because it can solve real problems: optimization goals cannot often be achieved until researchers have adequately described normal and idiopathic pathways of development and their causes. Those who studied physical growth and development, including bodily changes and the sequencing of motor skills: 2. Those who studied cognitive aspects of development, including perception, language, learning, and thinking: 3. The scientific study of development and its origins.
