Training Psychology

Well actually no. I just spent my 1 hour train ride studying psychology notes thus the title. And im just gonna ramble on whatever i remember what i wrote so it's gonna be incoherent and nonsensical.

Lifespan development, Physical and Cognitive:

research designs: sequential(combination), longitudinal(same ppl at diff ages), cross-sectional(diff age groups, same time)

Issues: Stability vs Instability, Continuity vs discontinuity, Nurture vs Nature, Critical and sensitive periods

Pre-Natal Development: 3 stages (Germinal, embryonic, foetal), teratogens

Infancy and Childhood: Newborn (reflexes and learning, sensory capabilities, visual habituation, perceptual development-perceptual narrowing, localize touch sensations)

Physical development: Motor development (cephalocaudal trajectory, proximodistal trajectory)

Brain (vital portions first then frontal lobe)

Environment and Cultural issues(enriched better, physical touch, biology limits environment influence)

Cognitive development: Piaget's stage model (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational), young infant's understanding of physical world(violation of expectation expt), Vygotsky's approach(development driven by biological and sociocultural imput.)

Info processing approaches: theory of the mind, STM LTM, Information search strategies, processing speed and attention span, memory language and metacognition

Adolescence: puberty, brain restructuring neural circuits, egocentrism(personal fable, imaginary audience), formal operational thinking

Adulthood: lower answering for more accuracy, growth of wisdom(knowledge about human nature and social r/s, decision making strategies, handling conflicts)

Aiya okay la. I didnt actually pull this all out from memory, otherwise don't need to study liao lor! Kept referring. BAD BAD BAD!! OFF TO MEMORISE MORE!!!