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Alice walker

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The color purple

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Development

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The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through life

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Life span perspective

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Perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, Etc. involves growth maintenance and regulation

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Context

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Setting in which development occurs

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Plasticity

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The capacity for change

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Three context influence types

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  1. Normative age graded
  2. Normative history graded
  3. Nonnormative or highly individualized life events
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Normative age graded influences

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Biological and environmental Influences that are similar for individuals In a particular age group (puberty menopause)

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Normative history graded influence

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Biological and environmental influences associated with history. (911)

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Nonnormative life events

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Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on a persons life (death in a family at a young age)

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3 goals of human development

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Growth
Maintenance
Regulation of loss

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Culture

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The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation to generation

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Cross-cultural studies

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Comparisons of the aspects of two or more cultures. Provides info about the development( similar, universal)

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Ethnicity

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A range of characteristics rooted in cultural heritage including nationality race religion and language.

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Socioeconomic status (ses)

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A persons position within a society based on occupational, educational, and economic characteristics.

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Gender

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The characteristics of people as females or males

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Social policy

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A national governments course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens

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Biological processes

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Changes in an individual’s physical nature

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Cognitive processes

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Changes in an individual’s thoughts, intelligence, and language

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Socioemotional processes

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Changes in an individual’s relationship with other ppl, emotions, and personality

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Developmental period

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Time frame in a persons life that is characterized by certain features.

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8 developmental periods

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Prenatal period
Infancy 
Early childhood
Middle / late childhood
Adolescents 
Early adulthood
Middle adulthood
Late adulthood
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Prenatal period

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Time from conception to birth

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Infancy

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Period from birth to 18-24 months

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Early childhood

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From end of infancy to 5-6 aka preschool years

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Middle and late childhood
6-11
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Adolescence
10/12-18/22
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Early adulthood
Late teens or early 20's through thirties
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Middle adulthood
40-60
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Late adulthood
60's or 70's until death
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Ted kacynski
Unabomber
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Four types of age
1. chronological 2. Psychological 3. Social 4. Biological
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Biological age
A persons age in terms of biological health
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Psychological age
Individual's adaptive capacities compared to others of the same chronological age
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Social age
Connectedness with others and the social roles individual's adopt
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Chronological age
Number of years that have elapsed since birth
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Freuds five stages of psychosexual development
``` Oral stage Anal stage Phallic stage Latency stage Genital stage ```
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Oral stage
Infants pleasure centers on mouth (birth - 1 1/2)
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Anal stage
Childs pleasure focuses on anus (11/2-3)
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Phallic stage
Childs pleasure focuses on genitals (3-6)
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Latency stage
Child represses sexual interest and develops social and intellectual skills (6- puberty)
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Genital stage
Time of sexual reawakening source of sexual pleasure becomes someone outside the family (puberty onward)
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Nature
Organisms biological inheritance
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Nurture
Environmental experiences
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Stability change issue
The debate about the degree to which early traits and hats geriatrics persist through life or change
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Continuity discontinuity issue
The debate about the extent to which development involves gradual cumulative change or distinct stages (discontinuity)
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Theory
Set of ideas to help explain data
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Hypothesis
Prediction derived from theories that can be tested
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Psychoanalytic theories
Theories holding that development depends on the unconscious mind and is heavily couched in emotion. Early experiences are important in development
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Eriksons theory
Psychosocial theory in which 8stages of development unfold throughout life.
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Eight stages (erikson)
Trust vs mistrust(first stage first year of life) Autonomy vs shame and doubt (1-3). Initiative vs guilt (3rd preschool yrs) industry vs inferiority (elementary school) identity vs identity confusion (adolescence). Intimacy vs isolation (early adult). Generativity vs stagnation (middle adulthood). Integrity vs despair (late)
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Piagets theory
Theory that children construct their understanding of the world and go through 4 stages of cognitive development
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Piagets 4 stages
sensorimotor stage- birth - 2 years Preoperational stage 2-7 Concrete operational stage 7-11 Formal operational stage 11-15
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Operations
Internalized mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they could only do physically
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Vygotsky theory
Cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide development
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Stability change issue
The debate about the degree to which early traits and hats geriatrics persist through life or change
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Continuity discontinuity issue
The debate about the extent to which development involves gradual cumulative change or distinct stages (discontinuity)
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Theory
Set of ideas to help explain data
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Hypothesis
Prediction derived from theories that can be tested
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Psychoanalytic theories
Theories holding that development depends on the unconscious mind and is heavily couched in emotion. Early experiences are important in development
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Eriksons theory
Psychosocial theory in which 8stages of development unfold throughout life.
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Eight stages (erikson)
Trust vs mistrust(first stage first year of life) Autonomy vs shame and doubt (1-3). Initiative vs guilt (3rd preschool yrs) industry vs inferiority (elementary school) identity vs identity confusion (adolescence). Intimacy vs isolation (early adult). Generativity vs stagnation (middle adulthood). Integrity vs despair (late)
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Piagets theory
Theory that children construct their understanding of the world and go through 4 stages of cognitive development
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Piagets 4 stages
sensorimotor stage- birth - 2 years Preoperational stage 2-7 Concrete operational stage 7-11 Formal operational stage 11-15
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Operations
Internalized mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they could only do physically
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Vygotsky theory
Cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide development
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Information processing theory
Theory emphasizes individual's manipulate info, monitor it. And strategize it. Memory and thinking are central
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Behavioral and social cognitive theories
Development can be described in terms of behavior learned through interactions
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Social cognitive theory
Behavior environment and person/ cognitive factors are important in understanding development
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Skinner
Believed in stimulus that made a person who they are. Positive stimulus resulted in continuous behavior neg would cause a halt in the behavior
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Banduras theory
Leading architect of social cog theory imitation and modeling monkey see monkey do. Three elements: behavior, the person, and environment.
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Ethology
Study of behavior in animals in their natural habitat
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Lorenza research
Goose guy imprinting
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Bowl u
Attachment to caregiver over first year of life
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Bronfrenbrenner
Developed ecological theory.
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Experiment
Regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant
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Apa guidelines
Informed consent confidentiality debriefing deception
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Cohort effects
Effects due to a subjects time of birth or generation not age

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