Midterm Flashcards
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The pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the lifespan. Most development involves growth, although it also includes decline brought on by aging and dying.
development
produce changes in an individual’s physical nature.
BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
refer to changes in the individual’ s thought, intelligence, and language.
COGNITIVE PROCESS
involve changes in the individual’s relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality.
SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROCESS
the number of years that have elapsed since birth.
Chronological Age
a person’s age in terms of biological health.
Biological Age
an individual’s adaptive capacities compared with those of other individuals of the same chronological age.
Psychological Age
refers to social roles and expectations related to a person’s age.
Social Age
focuses on the scientific study of the systematic processes of change and stability in people.
Human Development
Scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human lifespan.
Human Development
is considered to be from “womb to tomb,” comprising the entire human life span from conception to death.
Life-span Development
Concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically.
Life-span Development
Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.
Physical development
Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
Cognitive development
- A concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society.
- Division of the life span into periods.
Social construction
Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships.
Psychosocial development
Differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes.
Individual differences
can be conceptualized as the genetic roll of the dice.
Heredity
Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.
Heredity
Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development.
Environment
Unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.
Maturation
a household unit consisting of one or two parents and their children, whether biological, adopted, or stepchildren.
Nuclear family
a multigenerational network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and more distant relatives.
Extended family
a family structure in which one parent (most commonly the father) is married to multiple spouses, is even more unusual
Polygamy