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1: The People and the Field Flashcards

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the principle that our genetic temperamental tendencies cause us to choose to put ourselves into specific environments

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active forces

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nations defined by their wealth, or high median incomes - better education, life expectancy

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developed world

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societies that prize social harmony, obedience, close family relationships over individual achievement

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collectivist cultures

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a measurement strategy that involves directly watching and coding behaviors

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naturalistic observations

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original behavioral worldview that focused only on “objective”, observable behaviors

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traditional behaviorism

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father of child development who created cognitive developmental theory

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Jean Piaget

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the biological limit of human life (about age 105)

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maximum lifespan

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in Erik Erikson’s theory, each challenge that we face as we travel through the eight stages of the lifespan

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Erikson’s psychosocial tasks

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the extent to which the environment is tailored to our biological tendencies and talents

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person-environment fit

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behavioral genetic research strategy, compares identical twin pairs adopted into different families

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twin/adoption study

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psychological perspective emphasizing inborn, species-specific biological forces and behaviors (nature)

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evolutionary psychology

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large age group born between 1946-1964, at the center of radical transformations in society

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baby boom cohort

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John Bowlby’s theory that being closely connected to a caregiver in childhood and attached to a significant other later in life is crucial to human survival

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attachment theory

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the most impoverished nations of the world - less education, lower life expectancy

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developing world

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changing our thinking to fit input from the wider world (Piaget)

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accommodation

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the scientific study of the aging process and older adults

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gerontology

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a measurement that asks people to report on their feelings and activities through questionnaires

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self-report strategy

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communicable illnesses that are carried by microbes - highly contagious, appear quickly, either abate or cause death

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infectious diseases

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Jean Piaget’s principle that, from infancy to adolescence, children progress through four qualitatively different stages of intellectual growth

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cognitive developmental theory

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research field exploring how early life events alter the outer cover of our DNA, producing lifelong changes in health and behavior

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epigenetics

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the gap between the rich and the poor in a nation; very few affluent residents and a mass of disadvantaged citizens

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income inequality

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the principle that people affect one another, or that interpersonal influences flow in both directions

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bidirectionality

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in Piaget’s theory, the first step promoting mental growth, involving fitting environmental input to our existing mental capacities

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assimilation

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research technique involving collapsing the results of every study on an important topic into one overall measure, to prove that a finding is generally true of all people

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meta-analysis

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unpredictable or atypical life changes that occur during development (losing a loved one)

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non-normative transitions

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behavioral term for rewarding behavior

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reinforcement

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a research strategy that involves relating two or more variables

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correlational study

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people in their eighties and beyond who are more likely to have physical and mental disabilities

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old-old

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predictable life changes that occur during development (becoming a parent, beginning college)

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normative transitions

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field devoted to scientifically determining the role hereditary forces play in determining individual differences in behavior

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behavioral genetics

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a person’s 50/50 chance at birth of living to a given age

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average life expectancy

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learning by watching and imitating others

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modeling

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AKA social learning theory - behavioral perspective emphasizing that people learn by watching others and our thoughts about the reinforcers determine our behavior - started by Albert Bandura

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cognitive behaviorism

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the scientific study of human development throughout all of life

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lifespan development

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the phase of life that begins after high school, lasts through the late twenties and is devoted to constructing an adult life

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emerging adulthood

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developmental research strategy that involves testing the same age group repeatedly over many years

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longitudinal study

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rising in social class / economic status from that of your parents/childhood

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upward mobility

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the dramatic increase in average life expectancy that occurred in affluent nations during the first half of the 20th century

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twentieth-century life expectancy revolution

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the only research method that can determine real causation; involves randomly assigning people to different treatments and examining the outcome

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true experiment

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behavioral genetic research strategy, compares identical twins with fraternal twins (or other people)

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twin study

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pioneering scientist who established first U.S. institute for researching child development

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G. Stanley Hall

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people in their sixties and seventies who remain relatively healthy, stable

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young-old

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developmental research strategy involving testing different age groups at the same time

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cross-sectional study

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our birth group / age group with whom we travel through life

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cohort

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the scientific study of adult life

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adult development

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fatal illnesses (heart disease, cancer) tied to the aging process itself

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chronic diseases

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behavioral genetic research strategy, compares adopted children with their biological and adoptive parents

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adoption study

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the principle that our inborn talents and temperamental tendencies produce certain responses from the world

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evocative forces

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societies that prize independence, competition and personal success

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individualistic cultures

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an all-encompassing outlook on development that embraces variety of approaches, reality that many influences affect development

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developmental systems approach

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broad general influences (cohort, culture, status, gender) that shape our development throughout the lifespan

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contexts of development

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father of lifespan development who defined psychosocial stages and emphasized emotional growth throughout life

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Erik Erikson

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researchers and practitioners whose professional interest lies in studying the human lifespan

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developmentalists (developmental scientists)

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our belief in our own competence and ability to be successful - predicts our goals, whether we initiate activities, persist past failures

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self-efficacy

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the scientific study of human development from birth through adolescence

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child development

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according to traditional behaviorists, the law of learning that determines any voluntary action/response

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operant conditioning

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