Basics Flashcards
1
Q
What are the developmental stages?
A
- Conception to birth ( ~ 9 months)
- Infancy & Toddlerhood (0-3 years old)
- Early childhood & preschool (3 - 5 yrs old)
- Middle childhood school age ( 6 to 12 years old)
- Adolescence ( 13 to 18)
- Emerging Adulthood ( 18 to 24)
2
Q
Why study developmental psychology?
A
- professional goals
- inform social policy (such as parental rights)
- parenting aspects, parenting tasks
- self understanding
- nature v. nurture
- understand future of society
- children can be molded
- how culture impacts development
3
Q
Goals of developmental psychologists?
A
- ages/stages of new skills
- prevalence
- why does behavior change with development?
- what is biologically predetermined?
- what does the environment have to do with the development?
- what is the relationship between nurture v. nature
4
Q
What are the domains of development?
A
- Cognitive
- Social
- Emotional
- Physical
5
Q
Physical Development
A
• biological changes that occur in the body such as changes in height and strength
6
Q
Cognitive Development
A
• Changes in the way we think, understand and reason about the world
7
Q
Social-emotional development
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• changes in the way we connect to other individuals & express & understand emotions
