Lifespan Development

Question 1

Case studies

Answer 1

Bowlby
Harlow
Ainsworth
Piaget

Question 2

Harlow

Answer 2

Attachment by need and contact comfort
Use monkeys, cloth and bottle mother figures

Question 3

Harlow study Pros and Cons

Answer 3

Pros
- Challenge belief of only seeking basic needs
Cons
- Unethical
- Not generalizable

Question 4

Bowlby

Answer 4

Believe attachment is innate
Critical period to develop in 5 years
Monotropy - Attachment to one figure

Question 5

Maternal deprivation

Answer 5

Unable to develop relationship with parent
causes difficulty for other relationships
risk behavioral disorders

Question 6

Ainsworth

Answer 6

Strange situation
Valid and reliable study
Decent external validity

Question 7

Insecure avoidant

Answer 7

Do not seek parent when distressed
independent

Question 8

Insecure resistant

Answer 8

No comfort from figure when distressed
No development of security

Question 9

Piaget

Answer 9

Developmental psychologist intelligence of kids and adults
Increase current understanding and valid

Question 10

Schemas

Answer 10

Concept that interprets info
form from experience to situations

Question 11

Assimilation (Schemas)

Answer 11

Interpret new experience with existing schema

Question 12

Accommodation (Schemas)

Answer 12

Adapting current understanding to new info

Question 13

Equilibrium (Schemas)

Answer 13

State new info can be understand with existing knowledge
New info assimilate without contradiction

Question 14

Stages of Cognitive development

Answer 14

Sensory motor (0-2 yrs)
Pre-operation (2-7)
Concrete operation (7-11)
Formal operational (11+)

Question 15

Sensory motor stage

Answer 15

Object permanence - Knowing objects exist out of sight

Question 16

Pre-operation stage

Answer 16

Centration - dev logic and reason
Egocentrism- inability to see other P.O.V.
Symbolic - symbols to represent objects
Animism - Belief objects are alive
Seriation - Difficulty arranging objects to one direction

Question 17

Concrete operational stage

Answer 17

Think logically with concrete materials
Conservation - Properties remain when form changes

Question 18

Formal operation

Answer 18

Abstract thing
Imaginative situation

Question 19

Brain Plasticity

Answer 19

Ability of brain neural structure to be change by experience

Question 20

Developmental Plasticity

Answer 20

Sequence of change from infancy to adulthood
more changes when young

Question 21

Developmental Plasticity stages

Answer 21

Proliferation
Migration
Circuit formation
Synaptic pruning
Myelination

Question 22

Proliferation

Answer 22

Production of neurons
occurs 5 weeks to 28

Question 23

Migration

Answer 23

Neurons move to locations
Some are moved passively

Question 24

Circuit formation

Answer 24

Neurons form synapses
occurs after birth

Question 25

Synaptic pruning

Answer 25

Weakest synapses are removed

Question 26

Myelination

Answer 26

Axon get cover by myelin sheath

Question 27

Adaptive plasticity

Answer 27

Brain alter connections Change structure Make up for function of damage brain parts

Question 28

Rerouting (AP)

Answer 28

Undamaged neuron finds new pathways to others

Question 29

Sprouting (AP)

Answer 29

Growth of dendrites connection with other neurons