Flashcards in Ch 1 Test Deck (31)
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The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span
Development
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The settings influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors, in which development occurs
Context
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The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation to generation
Culture
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Comparisons of one culture with one or more other cultures
Cross-cultural studies
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What are the 3 processes
Biological-changes in an individual's body
Cognitive-changes in an individuals thought,intelligence, and language
Socioemotional -changes in an individual's relationship with other people, changes in emotion, changes in personality
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Time from conception to birth
Prenatal period
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The development peridod that extends from birth to 18-24 months of age
Infancy
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The developmental period that extends from the end of infancy to about 5-6 years of age
Early childhood
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The developmental period of transition from childhood to early adulthood, entered at approx. 10-12 years of age and ending at 18-22
Adolescence
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The developmental period that extends from about 6-11 years
Middle and late childhood
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Effects due to a person's time of birth, era, or generation but not to actual age
Cohort effects
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The generation born after 1980 that is the first to come of age and enter emerging adulthood in the millennium
Millenials
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The issues regarding whether developmental is primary influenced by _____ or _______.
Nature or nurture
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The issues regarding whether developmental involves gradual, cumulative change or distinct stages.
Continuity and discontinuity
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The issue to the degree to which early experiences or later experiences are the key determination of the child' s development
Early and later experiences
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Freud's 5 stages
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Gential
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Describe developmental as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion
Psychoanalytical
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A sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development
Vgotsky's theory
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Emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategies about it
Information processing theory
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A neutral stimulus acquires by the ability to produce a response originally produced by another stimulus
Pavlov's classical conditioning
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The consequences of a behavior produce change in the probability of the behaviors occurrences
Skinner's operant conditioning
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Stresses that behavior in strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods
Ethology
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A controlled setting in which many of the complex factors of the real work are removed
Laboratory
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Observing behavior in real world settings
Naturalistic observation
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A research design that has the purpose of observing and recording behavior
Descriptive research
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A research design whose goal is to describe the strength if the relationship between two or more events or characteristics
Correlation research
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A number based on statistical analysis that is used to describe the degree of association between two variables
Correlation coefficient
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A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time
Cross-sectional approach
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A research strategy in which the same individuals are studied over a period of time usually several years or more
Longitudinal approach
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