Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Phrenology
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- bumps on skull caused by development, each bump represents a quality which tells us about personality
- wrong because inside of skull is smooth
- led researchers to study localization of function
- Broca studied this
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Biological perspective summary
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- development is determined primarily by biological forces
- contains maturational theory and ethological theory
- Important contributors: Charles Darwin, G. Stanley Hall, Ernst Haeckel, Arnold Gesell, Konrad Lorenz
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Maturational theory
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- part of biological perspective
- development reflects the natural unfolding of a pre-arranged biological plan
- experience matters little in development
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Ethological theory
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- part of biological perspective
- many behaviors are adaptive because they have survival value
- we inherit many adaptive behaviors BUT experience is also important for development
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William James
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- functionalism; causal relationships between internal states and external behaviors
- “father” of psychology as an academic discipline
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Charles Darwin
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- understanding the dev. of individuals within a species can help understand how a species developed
- traits are inherited via natural selection
- you can trace dev. of human child by looking at dev. of species in general (adult chimpanzees have features of human child)
- kept a diary of his own child’s behavior
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G. Stanley Hall
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- influenced by Darwin and Ernst Haeckel
- human dev. recapitulates dev. of the species (we go from a primitive to a sophisticated form)
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Ernst Haeckel
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- “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”
- children are like primitive humans, adult fish is like embryological human
- theory disproved
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Ontogeny
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development of organism from embryonic stages
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Phylogeny
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evolution of species as a whole
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Arnold Gesell
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- maturational theory
- child development occurs according to a predetermined, naturally unfolding plan of growth
- if you try to teach something to a child who is not developmentally ready to learn it you can damage them
- determined norms to which children could be compared
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Konrad Lorenz
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- Ethology (adaptive/survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history)
- Critical period: time during which the child is ready and able to learn something (now called sensitive period)
- Imprinting: forming emotional bond between child and first moving object, usually the mother
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Critical period
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time during which the child is ready and able to learn something (now called sensitive period)
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Imprinting
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Imprinting: forming emotional bond between child and first moving object, usually the mother
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Psychodynamic Perspective summary
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- development is determined by how a child resolves conflict at different ages
- Major theories: Freud’s psychosexual stages and Erikson’s psychosocial theory
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Psychoanalysis
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- Freud’s theory
- proposed that development is largely determined by how well people resolve unconscious conflicts that arise during development
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Freud’s 3 components of personality
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Id: - primitive instincts and drives - unconscious Ego: - rational/practical; reality - develops in infancy - tries to meet the id’s desires with realistic and socially acceptable objects and actions - conscious Superego: - morality/conscience - develops from ages 3-6 through interactions w caregivers
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Freud’s psychosexual theory
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- humans are instinctively motivated from birth to experience physical pleasure
- as children grow, libido shifts to different parts of the body, termed “erogenous zones.”
- development proceeds best when children’s needs at each
stage are met but not exceeded - if needs not met, as adult they will be fixated on a certain stage
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Oral Stage
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- first stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory
- birth-1 year
- fixations: thumb sucking, fingernail biting, overeating, smoking
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Anal stage
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- second stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages
- 1-3 years
- holding and releasing urine and feces
- fixations: orderliness, obsessiveness, rigidity
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Phallic stage
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- third stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory
- 3-6 years
- Oedipus conflict in boys and Electra conflict in girls; child feels sexual desire for other-sex parent
- Fixations: vanity, exhibitionism, pride
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Latency stage
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- fourth stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory
- 6-11 years
- sexual instincts die down, superego develops further
- child acquires new social values from adults and same-sex peers
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Genital stage
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- fifth and final stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory
- adolescence but extends to adulthood
- sexual impulses reappear
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Erickson’s Psychosocial Theory
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- each stage of development is defined by a unique challenge
- Erikson studied with Freud’s daughter Anna
- psychodynamic bc it is based on Freudian theory
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Basic trust vs. mistrust
- first stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- corresponds to Freud's oral stage
- birth-1 year
- task: develop sense of world as safe/a good place
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Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
- second stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- corresponds to Freud's anal stage
- 1-3 years
- task: developing independence/decision making
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Initiative vs. guilt
- third of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- corresponds to Freud's phallic stage
- 3-6 years
- task: develop willingness to try new things and to handle failure
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Industry vs. inferiority
- fourth stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- corresponds to Freud's latency stage
- 6-11 years
- task: learn basic skills and work with others
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Identity vs. role confusion
- fifth stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- corresponds to Freud's genital stage
- adolescence
- task: develop lasting and integrated sense of self
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Intimacy vs isolation
- sixth stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- early adulthood
- task: commit to another in a loving relationship
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Generativity vs. stagnation
- seventh stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- middle adulthood
- task: contribute to next generation through child-rearing, caring for others, or productive work
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Integrity vs. despair
- eighth and final stage of Erickson's psychosocial theory
- late adulthood
- task: view one's life as satisfactory and worth living
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Neuropsychoanalysis
- study of the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and biological approaches in psychology
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Learning Perspective summary
- Learning theorists endorse John Locke’s view that the infant’s mind is a blank slate on which experience writes
- involves classical and operant conditioning
- emphasizes importance of experience in development
- Important figures: Skinner, Pavlov, Watson, Bandura
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Classical conditioning
- Pavlov and Watson
- link neutral stimulus to unconditional stimulus to produce conditional response to conditional stimulus
- ex. US: scary sound, UR: fear of sound, CS: rat, CR: fear of rat
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Generalization
when we respond to stimuli similar to CS (ex. stopping at all red lights and not just the one where you learned the rule)
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Counter-conditoning
- counters classical conditioning
- baby scared of rabbit, rabbit paired with cookies, fear response eliminated
- basis for exposure therapy!
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Operant conditioning
- Skinner
- behavioural theory about how the consequences of a behaviour can affect future occurrences of that behaviour
- uses positive/negative reinforcement or punishment
(positive = adding something, negative = removing something; both can be used as reinforcement or punishment)
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Skinner's radical behaviorism
- thoughts aren't important in explaining or understanding behaviour
- behaviour is caused by contingencies of reinforcement
- personality develops through different contingencies of reinforcement
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Social cognitive theory
- part of learning perspective
- Albert Bandura
- people can learn without personal reinforcement by watching those around them, through imitation or vicarious (observational) learning
- experience gives children a sense of self-efficacy—beliefs about their own levels of ability, skill, and talent to affect events having an impact on them personally
- can increase self-efficacy by: starting small, surrounding yourself with supportive people, recalling past successes
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Cognitive Developmental Perspective summary
- development reflects children's efforts to understand the world
- children viewed as 'little scientists' who develop and revise theories with experience
- Jean Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
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Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
- more about what a child can NOT do!
- child is an active participant in their own development through exploration of the world
- mental representations are important, not just behaviour
- debated widely in psychology
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Sensorimotor stage
- first stage of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
- birth-2 years
- knowledge of world based on senses and motor skills
- uses mental representations by end of stage
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Preoperational stage
- second stage of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
- 2 to 6 years
- child learns to use symbols such as words and numbers to represent aspects of the world
- only relates to world through own perspective (no theory of mind)
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Concrete operational stage
- third stage of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
- 7 to 11 years
- understand and apply logical operations to experiences, provided experiences are focused on the here and now (can't form hypotheses)
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Theory of mind
- knowing others have different thoughts
- develops after age 6 (after preoperational stage)
- might be lacking in children with ASD
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Formal operational stage
- fourth and final stage of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
- adolescence and beyond
- abstract thinking, making hypotheses, deductive reasoning
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Contextual perspective summary
- development is determined by immediate and more distant environments that typically influence each other
- Lev Vygotski believed adults convey to children the beliefs, customs, and skills of their culture
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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)
- what needs to be done to take the learner where he needs to be
- "what I can do with help"
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Zone of achieved development (ZAD)
- where the learner is right now
| - "what I can do" (without help)
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Ecological system's theory
- part of the contextual perspective
- Bronfenbrenner
- views development within a series of nested, interacting systems
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Microsystem
- part of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System's Theory
| - those very close to the individual
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Mesosystem
- part of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System's Theory
| - connection of microsystems: close family, school/daycare, neighborhood play area
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Exosystem
- part of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System's Theory
| - friends and neighbors, extended family, community services, parent's workplace
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Macrosystem
- part of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System's Theory
| - laws, values, customs (culture)
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Culture
knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, symbols, and behaviours associated with a group of people
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Information-processing theory
- proposes that human cognition consists of mental hardware and software
- adolescents have better hardware and software than younger children
- increase is steady (vs stages like Piaget's theory
- Mental hardware refers to cognitive structures, including memories and where they are stored
- Mental software includes organized sets of cognitive processes that allow children to perform tasks
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Evolutionary Theory
- evolution shapes which behaviours and characteristics contribute most to the survival of infants and children and, consequently, the survival of humanity
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Evolutionary Developmental psychology
- part of evolutionary theory
- approach to developmental psychology using evolutionary theory as a metatheory of human development in an attempt to have psychologists agree on a unified perspective of humanity.
- Martin Smith + Bjorklund and Pellegrini
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Developmental psychopathology
- attempts to present a broad, unified understanding of how abnormal development can occur
- Eric Mash and David Wolfe
- tries to explain how abnormal development occurs within a view of development as a dynamic process involving continual transformation during the lifespan
- try to differentiate between what is normal and abnormal from biological, social, emotional, and intellectual perspectives
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Freud
- psychodynamic perspective
| - emphasizes the conflict between primitive biological forces and societal standards for right and wrong
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Erikson
- psychodynamic perspective
| - emphasizes the challenges posed by the formation of trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, and identity.
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Skinner
- learning perspective
| - emphasizes the role of reinforcement and punishment in response to behaviour.
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Bandura
- learning perspective
| - emphasizes children’s efforts to understand their world using reinforcement, punishment, and others’ behaviour
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Piaget
- cognitive-developmental perspective
| - emphasizes the different stages of thinking that result from children’s changing theories of the world.
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Vygotsky
- contextual perspective
| - emphasizes the role of parents (and other adults) in conveying culture to the next generation
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Bronfenbrenner
- contextual perspective
| - emphasizes the influences of the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem
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Bjorklund and Pellegrin
- evolutionary perspective
- emphasize evolutionary theory as a possible unifying metatheory uniting various sub-fields within developmental psychology as well as psychology in general
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Martin Smith
- evolutionary perspective
| - emphasizes the survival value of relation-ships between grandparents and grandchildren
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Mash and Wolfe
- developmental psychopathology perspective
| - emphasize dynamic transformation throughout the lifespan and focus on how abnormal development can occur
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4 unifying themes in child-development research
- Early development is related to later development but not perfectly
- Development is always jointly influenced by heredity and environment
- Children help determine their own development
- Development in different domains is connected
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Continuous development theories
- children stay on same path throughout development
- Ecological systems theory
- Skinner's learning theory
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Discontinuous development theories
- development takes place in distinct stages
- children can change paths at any point in development
- Piaget's cognitive development stages
- Freud's Psychosexual stages
- Erickson's Psychosocial stages
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Passive development
- child doesn't have a say in development, it depends on what they are exposed to
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Evocative development
- child evokes a reaction from parents
| - parents are responding to child's abilities
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Active development
- niche-picking
| - child seeks out experiences that go with their predispositions
