YDS-2015-Autumn-07
Sept. 13, 2015 • 1 min
Not all psychologists are primarily interested in early development. But even researchers attempting to understand complex adult behaviours often find it useful to examine those behaviours during periods when they are not so complex. For example, humans are capable of sophisticated communication due to the fact that our languages follow systems of rules. But determining what these rules are has proved very difficult for researchers. One approach to this problem is to study our language system while it is being acquired. So, in language development, as well as in many other areas, the growing child is a showcase of developing skills and abilities, and researchers interested in different aspects of human development have utilized this fact to help them understand adult behaviour.