Developmental Psychology
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- The scientific study of patterns of change and stability, a lifelong process also called (life-span development)
- A systematic, coherent and organized, adaptive, and aimed at dealing with internal and external conditions of existence.
- Professionals who study the science of human development
- Human development is a lifelong process.
- What are the 3 domains of development?
- A division of the life span into periods.
- What are the 8 Age Periods?
- consider individual differences
- Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.
- The world outside the self beginning in the womb, and the learning that comes from experience.
- The unfolding of a natural sequence of physical changes and behavior patterns.
- What are the contexts of development?
- A household unit consisting of one or two parents and their children, whether biological, adopted, or stepchildren.
- A multigenerational network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and more distant relatives.
- Based on family income and the educational and occupational levels of the adults in the household.
- Conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative outcome.
- Refers to a society's or group's total way of life, including customs, traditions, laws, knowledge, belief, values, language, and physical products.
- Consist of people united by a distinctive culture, ancestry, religion, language, and origin.
- An overgeneralization that obscures or blurs such variations.
- Biological or environmental events that affect many or most people in a society in similar ways.
- What are the 2 kinds of Normative Influences?
- Highly similar for people in a particular age group.
- Significant environmental events that shape the behavior and attitudes of an age cohort.
- Group of people born at about the same time.
- Group of people who experience the same life-changing event at a formative time in their lives.
- Unusual events that have a major impact on individual lives because they disturb the expected sequence of the life cycle.
- A set of logically related concepts and statements that seek to describe and explain development and to predict what kinds of behaviors might occur under certain conditions.
- Tentative explanations or predictions that can be tested by further research.
- Who believes that a young child is a tabula rasa?
- What does tabula rasa means?
- Who believes that children are born "noble savages" who develop according to their own positive tendencies if not corrupted by society?
- It views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli. People are like machines that react to environmental input.
- It views human development as internally initiated by an active organism and as occurring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages. People are active, growing organisms that set their own development in motion. They initiate events; they do not just react.
- It is gradual or incremental
- It is abrupt or uneven
- They see development as continuous or occurring in small incremental stages.
- They see development as discontinuous and marked by the emergence of new phenomena that could not be easily predicted on the basis of past functioning.
- A change in number or amount, such as height, weight, or vocabulary size or frequency of communication.
- A change in kind, structure, or organization.
- Name the 2 developments under Psychoanalytic Perspective.