psych exam 2 notes Flashcards
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What is child psychology
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Looks at the children along every dimension at different ages
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What is developmental psychology?
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The study of continuity and change across the life span on different dimensions
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What are the major issues with developmental psychology
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- Nature/nurture- how do genetic inheritance (nature) and experience (nurture) influence our behavior
- Continuity/stages- is development gradual, continuous process or a sequence of separate stages?
- Stability/ change- do early personality traits remain stable or change through life
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What are the 4 different ways that children develop?
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- Motor- development of physical skills
- social- how does a kid change in relationships
- Cognitive- what change the way a kid think
- Linguistic- language, how does a child learn to speak
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What are the underlying all areas of developmental and child psychology?
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- Developmental is growth
- Interaction of heredity and environmental
- Orderly progression
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What is the orderly progression of language development
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- Cooing (3 months)
- Babbling (4 months)
- 1 word utterances (10 months)
- 2 word sentences (24 months)
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What is maturation?
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Genetic Instructions, that causes various bodily and mental functions to occur in sequence
