AOS 1 Flashcards
(87 cards)
Psychological Development
An individuals changes in functioning across multiple domains, including the life long grwoth across emotional, cognitive and social domains.
Hereditary Factors
Factors that influence development and are genetically passed down from biological parents to their offspring.
Environmental Factors
Factors the influence development and arise from an individual’s physical and social surroundings.
Genetic Predisposition
The increased likelihood to develop certain traits, including diseases if certain conditions are met.
Tabula Rasa
A clean slate or blank canvas in which individuals can chase who they want to be.
Biological Factors
Internal genetic and/or physicologically based factors.
Pyschological Factors
Internal factors pertaining to an individual’s mental proccesses, including their cognition, affect, thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.
Social Factors
External factors relating to an individuals’s interactions with others and their external environment, including their relationships and community involvement.
Biopyschosocial model
A holistic, interdisciplinary framework for understanding the human experience in terms of the influence of biological, psychological and social factors.
Mental wellbeing
An individual’s current pyschological state, involving their ability to think, process information, and regulate emotions.
Emotional Development
The continous, lifelong development of skills that allow individuals to express and recognise emotions in an appropriate way.
Social Development
The continuous lifelong development of certain skills, attitudes, relationships and behaviours that enable an individual to interact with others and to function as a member of society.
Difference between psychological and cognitive development
Although we often use the terms ‘pyschological’ and ‘cognitive’ when speaking about functions of the brain, they reflect different aspects of the human experience. Psychology is the ‘umbrella term’ for everything that occurs within our consiousness, whereas cognition relates specifically to thoughts that we may have and is an aspect of pyschological development.
Development
The proccess of developing or being developed.
Lifespan Development
Studies how humans learn, mature, and adapt from infancy to adulthood to elderly phases of life.
Continuous Development
Developing over time at different rates, the development never stops.
Discontinuous Development
Develop in stages, each stage has challenges that one overcomes before they can move to the next stage
Longitudinal Study
Researchers repeatedly examine the same individuals to detect any changes that might occur over a period of time.
Theory of Mind
The ability to understand a differing of beliefs across multiple people. Most famous example being the Sally-Anne test.
Attachment
A long-lasting emotional bond between 2 individuals. Bowlby’s Stages of attatchment: pre-attachment, Attachment-in-the-making, Clear-cut attachment, Formation of Reciprocal Attachment.
Ainsworth Style of Attachment
Secure attachment, Resistant attachment, Avoidant attachment.
Secure Attachment
Involves the needs of the infant being consistently met by their primary caregiver/s allowing the infant to feel calmed by the presence of the caregiver when they feel disintrested.
Insecure-avoidant Attachment
The infant may avoid or be reluctant to recieve contact from their primary caregiver, usually due to the caregiver not responding to the infants need.
Insecure-anxious (resistant) attachment
The infant fluctuates between clinging to and rejecting their primary caregiver, usually due to the caregiver inconsistently meets in the childs needs.
