Chapter One Flashcards
Ethology
The study of the behavior of animals in their natural habitat
Critical Period
A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in body or behavior) must happen now, if it is ever going to happen
Sensitive Period
The prime for specific development. It occurs more easily in a sensitive period, but cannot occur exclusively during that time
The Big Three of Developmental Psychology
- Nature vs Nurture
- Stability vs Change
- Continuity vs Discontinuity
Nature vs Nurture
Why?
Stability vs Change
How long?
Continuity vs Discontinuity
When?
Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory
Four Discontinuous Stages
1. Sensorimotor Stage
2. Preoperational Stage
3. Concrete Operational Stage
4. Formal Operational Stage
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
Eight Stages
1. Trust vs Mistrust
3. Initiative vs Guilt
Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory
Believed that behavior, environment, and cognitive factors and key in development
Skinner’s Operant Conditioning (behaviorism)
Believed that the pattern of behavioral changes are brought about by rewards and punishments
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
