Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology résumés

These lecture notes stem from week 2 of lectures from Dr Fenja Ziegler combined with her book which I highly recommend reading. In this document we begin by looking at methodological approaches to developmental psychology and what issues we can encounter when studying children. Pages 1-2 explore cognitive neuroscience techniques and the limitations associated with them. Further pages investigate other techniques of researching children including observation techniques and Children's answers...

This document works as a key introduction to developmental psychology- exploring various different psychological approaches and influential theories to give you an idea on how psychology has developed over time. This document is a short one containing information on theories of development, Freud's psychosexual stages theory and why Freud's work has been labelled controversial. For further information on this topic, I recommend researching Piaget's theories and Erikson's proposal of Dev...

These lecture notes stem from week 2 of lectures from Dr Fenja Ziegler combined with her book which I highly recommend reading. In this document we begin by looking at methodological approaches to developmental psychology and what issues we can encounter when studying children. Pages 1-2 explore cognitive neuroscience techniques and the limitations associated with them. Further pages investigate other techniques of researching children including observation techniques and Children's answers...

This document works as a key introduction to developmental psychology- exploring various different psychological approaches and influential theories to give you an idea on how psychology has developed over time. This document is a short one containing information on theories of development, Freud's psychosexual stages theory and why Freud's work has been labelled controversial. For further information on this topic, I recommend researching Piaget's theories and Erikson's proposal of Dev...