Behavioral Development Flashcards
1
Q
What is the shape of developement?
A
- Continuous-gradual development
- quantitative
- as we age… grow taller, know more vocab
- Discontinous-stage developement
- qualitative
- nonverbal–speaking toddler
2
Q
What are the basic periods of developement?
A
- Prenatal Period
- before birth
- Infancy
- birth-2
- Early childhood
- 2-6
- Middle to late childhood
- 6-11
- Adolescence
- 12-18
- Emerging Adulthood
- 18-25
- Early Adulthood
- 24-45
- Middle Adulthood
- 45-60
- Late Adulthood
- 60+
3
Q
Temperament Theories
A
- Behavior when responding to enviroment
- emotions
- self-regulation
- activity level
- GENETIC so respond a certain way
*
4
Q
What are the 3 basic temperment styles in infancy?
A
- Easy=40%
- Slow to warm up-15%
- difficult-10%
- mixed=35%
- stable over time
- “Goodness of fit” related to developmental outcomes
5
Q
Kagan’s Work
A
- inhibited vs uninhibited
- inhibited-15-20%
- uninhibited-25-30%
- stable over time, genetically based
- related temperment of reactivity to later social outcomes
- high reactive
- shy, timid, fearful
- Average reactive
- average outcomes
- Low reactive
- sociable, friendly, outgoing, spontaneous
- high reactive
6
Q
What does the influence of temperment depend on?
A
- goodness of fit b/w enviroment and temperment
7
Q
What does temperament influence?
A
- interactions with people and settings
- perceptions
- experiences
- interpretations
- thoughs
8
Q
As we develop, temperament differences develop into?
A
personality traits
9
Q
Attachment theory
A
- J. Bowlby-orphans
- Attachment response
- genetically programed to promote survival
- early attachments affect development
- Ainsworth’s research: Strange situation
- securely attached vs ambivalent or insecure
10
Q
What are the attachment milestones?
A
- Pre-attachment
- 0-3 months
- no clear signs of attachment
- Attachment in the making
- 4-7 months
- primary caregiver
- Clear-cut (focused) attachment
- 7 months-2/3 years
- seperation anxiety
- stranger anxiety
- need to be close to primary caregiver
- Workingmodel
- >3 years
- mental representation of caregiver allows to be apart from primary attachment figure
11
Q
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
A
- Where does knowledge come from? Evolve?
- intelligence
- ability to adapt to all aspects of reality
12
Q
Piagets: Mechanisms of development
A
- Organization
- schemes
- organized mental patterns that represent behavior and action
- schemes
- adaptation
- assimilation
- new experience is incorporated into current way of thinking
- accommodation
- new experience changes the current way of thinking
- assimilation
13
Q
What are Piagets stages of Cognitive development?
A
- 0-2 years
- sensorimotor
- 2-7 years
- Preoperational
- 7-11 years
- concrete operational
- 12+
- Formal operational
14
Q
Piagets: Sensorimotor Stage
A
- 0-2 years
- Object permanence
- understanding that objects exist even when out of sight
- Limited thinking
- A not B error
- even when baby sees an object hidden in 2nd hiding place, he returns to original hiding place to find it
- Deferred imitation
- infant repeats an action observed from earlier
- Means-end behavior
- infants performs a different or seperate action to reach a goal
15
Q
Piaget: Preoperational Stage
A
- 2-7 years
- Lack of identity Constancy
- can’t grasp that persons core “self” stas the same despit changes in external appearance
- beard to shaved=crying
- can’t grasp that persons core “self” stas the same despit changes in external appearance
- Animism
- inaminate objects are alive
*
- inaminate objects are alive
16
Q
Piaget: Limitations of Preoperational stage
A
- Centering
- fixate on most visually striking feature and not take into account other dimensions
- Egocentrism
- unable to understand that otherss have different points of view
17
Q
Piagets: preoperational stage-Conservation tasks
A
- Reversibility:
- knowledge that a specific cchange can be reversed
- Decentering
- see several dimensions
18
Q
Concrete Operational Stage
A
- 7-11 years
- understand reality beyond own perspective
- considers several dimensions & looks beyond immediate appearances
- focuses on states and transformations
- Understand conservation tasks & identity constancy
- Begin to understand basic math