Developmental psychology
- Created by: Lakeishacorbett
- Created on: 08-12-16 12:23
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- What is it?
- Can be studies at any stage of life.
- It studies how we change through our lives.
- How we learn new things, how values and morals change etc
- Studies nature vs nurture
- Developmental psychology
- What does developmental psychology focus on?
- There are two types of reinforcement-External-approval Internal-feeling happy
- How we learn from others through observation.
- Vicarious reinforcement: Using consequence of others actions to decide to imitate.
- People will punish or reinforce a child's behavior allowing them to decide if to repeat.
- More likely a child will imitate behavior deemed appropriate for their sex and imitate people similar to them
- How we encode other peoples behavior and imitate it.
- Relates to social learning theory-see mind-map.
- What does developmental psychology focus on?
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