Developmental Psychology

An Introductory Series: Developmental Psychology

By Connor Whiteley

Copyright © 2019 Connor Whiteley

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Content page:

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

About the author

Introduction:

What is psychology?

We all must have heard of psychology at some point, right?

However, what actually is psychology? Because I think that we are all rather shock about what psychology actually involves when we know the truth.

Especially, as we believe that psychology is what people on programmes like NCIS, CSI and Bones do. Profiling people and all that.

But I hate to disappoint you and break your image of psychology because as I found out- that version of psychology isn’t strictly true. Mainly because the majority of forensic psychologists’ work is in prisons rehabilitating inmates. At least that’s what my research into the job market has shown.

Anyway, all that psychology is, is the scientific study of behaviour and yes for anyone of you who are thinking ‘psychology a science you must be joking’ but as I will be showing you throughout this series is that there are a number of scientific methods for researching the complex and sometimes unpredictable phenomenon known as human behaviour.

Now in chapters, you will see a section under each case study that we’ll look at called critically thinking. In this small section, we’ll look at a positive and a negative of the study. I will fully admit that some of the negatives or limitations of the study will seem a bit extreme or nit-picky. However, the purpose of this section is to help you start to evaluate and think about what makes a good study- and if there are any IB psychology teachers or students out there. I promise that for my exams I do