AP psychology chapter 9 Flashcards

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Developmental Psychology

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The study of maturation

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2 types of studies

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal.

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Cross-sectional studies

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Uses participants of varying ages to study how certain variables change over a lifespan, lot’s of confounding variables.

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Longitudinal

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Examines a group of participants over a long period of time.

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Teratogens

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Chemical agents that cause harm to the fetus when ingested by the mother. Alcohol is the most common, causes FAS.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

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Causes small and malformed skulls as well as intellectual disabilities. Caused by heavy drinking.

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Fetal alcohol effect

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Does not show all the symptoms of FAS, is caused by moderate drinking.

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Rooting reflex

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When touched on the cheek, the baby will turn their head and try to put the object in their mouth.

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Moro reflex

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When startled, the baby will fling out their limbs and quickly retract them.

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Babinski reflex

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When the bottom of the feet are stroked, the baby will spread their toes.

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Sensory development of babies

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Prefers face shaped objected, hearing developed before birth, born with basic taste preferences, basically blind.

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Konrad Lorenz

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Found that some infant animals imprint on things after birth.

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Harry Harlow

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Attachment research. Discovered touch is an important part of attachment (wire frame monkey mothers experiment).

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Mary Ainsworth

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Attachment research. Placed babies in strange situations, discovered 3 types of attachments: Secure attachments, avoidant attachments, and anxious/ambivalent attachments.

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Secure attachments

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66%, the baby confidently explores while the parents are there and becomes distressed when they leave. They go to the parents when they come back.

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Avoidant attachments

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21%, Avoids parents and explores the new environment. Doesn’t go back to parents.

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Anxious/ambivalent attachments

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12%, really stressed when parents leave but doesn’t want to be comforted by them when they return.

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Diana Baumrind

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Divided parenting styles into authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative.

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Continuity vs Discontinuity

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A major controversy in developmental psych, asks if development is steady or discontinuous.

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Lev Vygotsky

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Believed in the zone of proximal development, which refers to the range of tasks a child can do independently at a certain age.

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Erik Erikson

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Neo-Freudian, developed the psychosocial stage theory which centers on personality.

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Trust vs mistrust

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Depends on if babies needs are met by caretaker, birth - 1 y old.

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Autonomy vs shame/doubt

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Toddlers learn to control their body and emotions. 1- 3 y old.

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Initiative vs guilt

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Lots of curiosity, asks a lot of questions, will feel comfortable or guilty depending on response to questions, age 3 - 6 y old.

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Industry vs inferiority

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Develops inferiority complex (typically in school), 6 y old early teens.

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Identity vs role confusion

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Late teens to 20s.

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Intimacy vs isolation

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Young adults try to figure out a healthy balance in life. Age 20 - 40 y old.

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Generativity vs stagnation

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Trying to seize control of life or letting it flow around them. Age 40 - 60.

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Integrity vs despair

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60+ y old.

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Ages of psychosexual stage theory

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Oral stage: 1.5 y old, anal stage: 1,5 - 3 y old, phallic stage: 3 - 6 y old, latency stage: 6 y old - puberty, genital stage: puberty and older.

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Jean Piaget

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Worked for Alfred Binet, believed cognitive development goes schemata creation - assimilation - accommodation. His theory describes how thinking progresses. Critisized for having underestimated children.

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Schemata

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Cognitive rules we use to interpret the world.

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Assimilation

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When we incorporate new experiences into existing schemata.

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Piagets cognitive stage theory

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Sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operations, formal operations.

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Sensorimotor stage

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Behavior is governed by innate reflexes, object permanence is developed, in which babies realize objects exist even when they aren’t visible. Birth - 2 y old.

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Preoperational stage

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Children learn language, can refer to the world through symbols but can’t relate objects to their characteristics, are egocentric. Age 2 - 7.

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Concrete operations

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Children learn to think logically about the relationship between objects and their characteristics. They understand the concepts of conservation. 7 - 12 y old.

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Concepts of conservation

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Properties of objects remain the same even when the shape changes.

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Formal operations

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Adult reasoning, which Piaget believed not everyone reaches in all areas of thought. Abstract reasoning is developed, aka making mental connections with no real-world correlations. Ages 12+.

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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Studied the development of morality by asking children questions like the Heinz dilemma. 3 levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.

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Preconventional

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Reasoning is based only on themselves. Birth to 9 y old.

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Conventional

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Moves past personal gain or loss and focuses on conventional standards. Ages 10 - early teens.

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Post conventional

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Actual moral reasoning, examing rights and wrongs, creates self defined ethical principles which affect choice, morality of societal rules is examined rather than followed blindly. Late teens to adulthood.

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Carol Gilligan

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Criticized Kohlberg for only using boys in his studies.

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Gender Schema Theory

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Explains how we internalize messages about gender into our own rules about how genders should behave.