Life Span Development Flashcards
1
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What is growth?
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- quantitative and measurable aspects of someone’s increase in physical measurements.
2
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What is a non-genetic influence on growth?
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-affected by other factors such as socioeconomic status
3
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What is development?
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- progressive and continuous process of change leading to increased skill and capacity to function
4
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What are the 3 main factors influencing growth and development?
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- genetic/natural factors
- environmental factors
- interacting factors
5
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Give examples of genetic/natural factors
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- tempermant
- heredity
6
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Give examples of environmental factors
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- family
- nutrition
- health environment
- rest/sleep/exercise
7
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Give examples of interacting factors
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- life experiences
- prenatal health
- state of health
8
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What is a developmental theory?
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- models intended to account for how and why people develop as they do
9
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What are the 5 developmental theories?
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- organicism
- psychoanalytic and psychosocial
- mechanistic
- contextualism
- dialecticism
10
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What is organicism?
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- development is a result od biologically driven behaviour and the person’s adaptation to the environment
11
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What are biophysical developmental theories?
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- describe how people’s physical bodies grow and change
- can be compared against established norms
12
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what is Gesell’s theory of maturational development?
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- focused on the physical and mental development of children.
- He suggested that children will go through the same stages of development, in the same sequence but each child will go through the stages at their own rate.
13
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What is maturation?
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- the biological internal regulatory mechanism that governs the emergence of all new skills and abilities that appear as the individual becomes older
14
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What is differentiation?
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- the process by which cells and structures become modified and refine their characteristics
15
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What are cognitive development theories?
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- reasoning and thinking processes, changes in how people perform intellectual operations
