Chapter 1 Flashcards
(49 cards)
Development
Pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span
Human life span
Maximum life span of humans has not changed since the beginning of recorded hisory
Life Expectancy
Avg. # of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live
Lifelong
No age period dominates development
Multidemensional
Biological, cognitive and socioemotional
Plastic
Capacity for change
Multidisciplinary
Psychologist, neurologist
Contextual
All development occurs within a setting
Context: Normative age-graded influences
Particular age group
Context: Normative History-graded influences
Particular generation
Context: Non-normative life events
Unusual occurrences for the individuals
Biological processess
Produce changes in an individuals physical nautre
Cognitive Processes
Refers to changes in the individuals thought, intelligence and language
Socioemotional Processes
Involve changes in the individuals relationship with other people, changes in emotions and changes in personality
Developmental period
Refers to a time frame in a persons life that is characterized by certain features
Chronological Age
Number of years since birth (Time doesn’t cause development)
Biological Age
Age in terms of biological health (Functional ability of Organs)
Psychological Age
Individuals adaptive capacities compared with those of other individuals of the same chronological age
Social Age
Societies age expectation
Nature-Nurture
Extent to which development is influenced by nature or nurture
Stability-change
Extent to which stability is the result of heredity/early experience and the potential for change-plasticity
Continuity-discontunity
Degree to which development involves either gradual, cumulative change or distinct stages
Freud Oral Stage
Infants pleasure centers on the mouth
Freuds Anal Stage
Childs pleasure focuses on the anus
