Week One - Developmental Psychology Flashcards
(16 cards)
Prenatal
Conception to birth
Executive functioning
Controlling, organising, and planning your behaviour
Visual measurement
Direction of focus, facial expressions, gestures, brain imaging
Cross-sectional studies
Collecting data from participants at a set moment in time to provide a snapshot of development at a specific age
Longitudinal studies
Observing and collecting data from the same group of participants over an extended period to examine change/stability in behaviour over time
Experimental studies
Manipulating one or more variables to observe their impact on development
Observational studies
Systematically observing and documenting behaviours in a lab or natural setting
Twin studies
Compares development of twins to assess contribution of genetics and environment
Adoption studies
Studies children who were adopted and compares them to their biological and adoptive families/environments
Case studies
In-depth examination of a single individual to offer detailed insight into unique developmental experiences
Physical/motor development
Physical changes within CNS
Cognitive development
Memory, thinning, perceiving, understanding
Emotional development
Expressing, understanding, and controlling emotions
Social development
Social behaviour and an understanding of the social world
Episodic memory
Receiving and storing information about dated events
Infantile amnesia
No memories are formed before the age of 2 or 3 as episodic memory has not yet developed
