1. CHAPTER 1: LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT
Prof. Alas, MA
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2. What is Developmental Psychology?
Developmental psychologists are interested in how people change, physically and psychologically as they age.
Developmental psychologists are interested in common patterns of development and growth and the way in which people differ throughout the lifespan.

3. Nature and Nurture
Nature-nurture controversy - long-standing debate over relative importance of heredity and learning in many aspects of functioning. 
John Locke, British philosopher, believed that human infants born without knowledge or skills. 
Jean Rousseau, French philosopher, argued that we bring into our world our evolutionary legacy.  

4. DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGNS
1. LONGITUDINAL DESIGN
2. CROSS-SECTION DESIGN

5. RESEARCH DESIGNS: LONGITUDINAL
Observe and test same individuals over long period of time. 

6. RESEARCH DESIGNS: CROSS-SECTIONAL
Subject, groups, different ages, observed and immediately compared to each other

7. ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY

8. VYGOTSKY THEORY

9. VYGOTSKY THEORY

11. EPIGENETIC