Psych

thinking, feeling, and bahvior change as we develop

-study from birth to death

- Nurture vs Nature?

• -Continuity or Stages?
• -continuous development or stage phase learning

• - Stable or change?
• - does development change or stabilizes?

develoment governed by automatic, genetically predetermined signals

a small window in which specific types of learning shapes the capacity for future development

- Cross sectional research

-Longitudinal research

research that measures individuals of various ages at one point in time

research that measures a single individual or group of same age for an extended period of time

- gives info about age changes. different ideas.

• Pros
• - gives information about age differences
• -quick
• -less expensive
• - typically larger sample
• Cons
• - Cohort effects are difficult to seperate
• -restricted generalizability( measures behaviors at one point in time)

• Pros
• -Gived information about age changes
• - increased reliability
• - more in depth information per participant

• Cons
• - More expensive
• - Time consuming
• -restricted generalizability ( typically smaller sample and dropouts over time)