Developmental Concepts Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is Growth?
An increase in body size or changes in
body cell structure, function, and complexity
What is Development?
An orderly pattern of changes in
structure, thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
resulting from maturation, experiences, and
learning
What are factors influencing Growth and Development?
Genetic history, Prenatal, individual, and caregiver factors, Environment and nutrition, Health–illness state, Culture
What is Genomics?
The study of the structure and interactions of all the genes in
the human body, including their interactions with each other as well as
the environment.
What is Epigenetics?
Generally defined as the study of the changes that occur in organisms due to modification of gene expression and hereditability, not a change in the DNA sequence
What was Freud’s theory of development?
Theory of Psychoanalytic development
What was Piaget’s theory of development?
Theory of cognitive development
What is Erickson’s theory of development?
Theory of psychosocial development
What is Havighursts” theory of development?
Theory based on developmental tasks
What is Gould’s developmental theory?
theory based on specific beliefs and developmental phases
What is Levinson’s developmental theory?
Theory based on the organizing concepts of individual life structure
What is Kohlberg’s developmental theory?
Theory of moral development
What is Gillian’s developmental theory?
Conception of morality from the female viewpoint
What is Fowlers theory of development?
Theory of faith development
What is the progression of Freud’s theory?
The unconscious mind, The id, The ego, The superego
What are the different Freud developmental stages?
Oral stage, Anal stage, Phallic stage, Latency stage, Genital stage
What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
Sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, Formal operational stage
Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development?
Stages of development, developmental goals or tasks, psychosocial crises, The process of coping
What are the stages of Erikson’s theory?
Trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame, initiative vs guilt, Industry vs inferiority,
