Chap 1 & 2 Flashcards
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Similar for individuals in a particular age group. These influences include a biological process such as puberty and menopause
Normative age-grade influences
Common to people of a particular generation because of historical circumstances.ex/ baby boomers
Normative history graded influences
usual occurrences that have a major impact on the lives of individual people. These events do not happen to everyone and when they do they influence ppl different ways
ex/ death of a parent or winning the lottery
Nonnormative life events
Involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or change
Stability and change
A persons genetic heritage; the actual genetic material
genotype
The way an individuals genotype is expressed in observed and measurable characteristics
Phenotype
x linked inheritance
sex linked gene
the interaction of many genes
polygenetic inheritance
caused by extra 21 chromosome
down syndrom
a chromosomal disorder in which males have an extra x chromosome
-undeveloped testes and enlarged breasts
Klinefelter syndrom
A chromosomal disorder in females which either an x chromosome is missing or part of one is deleted
-infertile and difficulty with mathmatics
Turner Syndrom
Development is the result of an ongoing bidirectional interchange between heredity and the environment
Epigenetic view
specific time in which a particular event has great consequence
Critical Period
Particularly susceptible, but not alway irreversible
Sensitive period
focuses on our interactions with others and society
Eriksons Psychosocial development
a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired
classical conditioning
voluntary behavior governed primarily by consequence
operant conditioning
behavior learned by observing others and consequences
Social cognitive learning thory
emphasis on how to represent, understand and think about world
cognitive perspective
development occurs within context of interaction and culture
vygotsky sociocultural interaction
