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Question 1

What is developmental psychology?

Answer 1

The scientific study of how our mental processes, feelings,, and behaviours emerge and change across the lifespan.

Question 2

What are Tinbergen’s 4 questions?

Answer 2

Mechanism
Ontogeny
Adaptive value
Phylogeny

Question 3

What does mechanism enteil?

Answer 3

How a behaviour occurred
What stimuli triggered it

Question 4

What does ontogeny entail?

Answer 4

How does an animal’s expression of the behaviour change over the animal’s lifetime
Does it develop over time

Question 5

What does adaptive value entail?

Answer 5

How does the behaviour benefit the animal and increase its fitness

Question 6

What does phylogeny entail?

Answer 6

How did the behaviour evolve
Is it shared by closely related species

Question 7

What are 2 reasons as to why we study early development?

Answer 7

In the first year, more than one million new connections per second are formed in the baby’s brain.
This is the best time to invest for positive outcomes.

Question 8

What was Plato’s view?

Answer 8

He had a nativist view
He believed that children are born with innate knowledge

Question 9

What was Aristotle’s view?

Answer 9

Empiricist view
He believed that knowledge comes from experience

Question 10

What is the difference between assimilation and accommodation?

Answer 10

Assimilation: interpreting the environment in terms of structures we already have

Accommodation: changing out cognitive structures to fit with the environment