Methods of Developmental Psychology
Studying Developmental Psychology
How does a person change from one time to another
Cross Sectional Design
A type of developmental study in which children of different ages are me
Conceptual Development
You go to the zoo and get asked to pay some money
Then you see this other animal you know nothing about and youve never seen it
You get told this animal is something like a
We make in
Modern Understanding of Evolution
The Beagle
In 1831 Charles Darwin got onboard and started a 5 year search and navigation across the globe
Looked at plant and animal species
He conceived the theory of evolution v
Gender Development
Stephen
Born in the early 1960s in Chicago
Doctors said they had a boy and the kid went home
Doctors prescribed some testosterone to inject
Had androgen insensitivity syndrome in her 30s and ch
Moral Development
Morality the intuitive sense of right and wrong that guides our own behaviour and leads us to judge and possibly condemn others
behaviour
Prosocial behaviour all the nice things we do for and to
Nature, Nurture and Development
Interactionism
A means that nature and nurture work together to create traits in
people
For every trait you talk about, the interaction is different in each case
Helps us understand
Language Development
White-Crowned Sparrow
Each have a specific accent (songs)
Have a small but important vocabulary only say 3 words
Nothing like human language
No scope and no grammar
o Cant put ideas together
Perceptual Development
Michael May
Was a skier but lost his entire vision in an accident
Theres a lot of abnormalities in his face and object perception
Common problem for adults who get vision restored
Hes no
Social Contexts for Development
Facultative Adaptations are adaptations that are designed to respond developmentally to specific stimuli in the environment, in
order to optimize the fit between the individual and the en
Attachment
Surrogate Nutritive and Soft Mothers
Harlow compared a rhesus monkeys reaction to a wire monkey mother and a terry-cloth monkey mother
Taken from their mothers shortly after birth and exposed to these two
