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View of human development that holds
that changes in behavior result from
experience or from adaptation to the
environment.

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Learning perspective

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Bandura’s term for bidirectional forces
that affect development.

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reciprocal determinism

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“Time of relative calm between
more turbulent stages.” what stage is this?

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Latency

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“Child develops
a balance of independence and self-sufficiency over shame and doubt.” what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Autonomy VS self and doubt (will)

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Research method in which the observer
lives with the people or participates in
the activity being observed.

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Participant study

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Research that focuses on nonnumerical
data, such as subjective experiences,
feelings, or beliefs.

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Qualitative research

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“Child becomes attached to parent of
the other sex and later identifies
with same-sex parent. Superego
develops. Zone of gratification
shifts to genital region.” what stage is this?

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Phallic

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“Child must learn skills of the
culture or face feelings of incompetence. what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Industry VS Inferiority (skill)

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Possible explanations for phenomena,
used to predict the outcome of research.

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Hypotheses

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Vygotsky’s term for the difference
between what a child can do alone
and what the child can do with help.

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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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“Person seeks to make commitments to
others; if unsuccessful, may suffer from
isolation and self-absorption” what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Intimacy VS Isolation (love)

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Sense of one’s capability to master
challenges and achieve goals.

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Self efficacy

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Study designed to assess age-related
differences, in which people of different
ages are assessed on one occasion.

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cross sectional study

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a major psychosocial challenge that
is particularly important at that time and will remain an issue to some degree throughout the rest of life. These issues must be satisfactorily resolved for healthy
ego development.

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crisis in personality

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Group of participants chosen to represent the entire population under study

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Sample

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Model that views human development as
internally initiated by an active organism
and as occurring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages.

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Organismic model

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“Older adult achieves acceptance of own life, allowing acceptance of death, or else despairs over inability to relive life.” what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Integrity VS Despair (wisdom)

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Bronfenbrenner’s approach to understanding processes and contexts of
human development that identifies five
levels of environmental influence.

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bioecological theory

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Learning through watching the behavior
of others.

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observational learning

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Research method in which all participants are observed under the same
controlled conditions.

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laboratory observation

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In Freudian theory, an unvarying
sequence of stages of childhood
personality development in which
gratification shifts from the mouth to the
anus and then to the genitals.

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Psychosexual depelopment

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In an experiment, the group receiving
the treatment under study

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Experimental group

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The process by which a behavior is
weakened, decreasing the likelihood of
repetition.

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Punishment

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Temporary support to help a child
master a task.

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Scaffholding

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“Mature adult is concerned with
establishing and guiding the next generation or else feels personal impoverishment. “ what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Generativity VS Stagnation (care)

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Learning based on associating a
stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a
response with another stimulus that
does elicit the response.

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classical conditioning

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Piaget’s term for incorporation of new
information into an existing cognitive
structure. - taking in new information and incorporating it into existing cognitive
structures

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Assimilation

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Study of links between neural processes and cognitive abilities.

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cognitive neuroscience

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In Erikson’s eight-stage theory, the
socially and culturally influenced process
of development of the ego, or self.

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Psychosocial development

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Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain,
and predict data.

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Theory

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the conscience
and incorporates socially approved “shoulds” and “should nots” into the child’s value system.

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Superego

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View of human development that sees
the individual as inseparable from the
social context.

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Contextual perspective

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View of human development that
focuses on evolutionary and biological
bases of behavior.

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Evolutionary/Socio biological perspective

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Rigorously controlled, replicable procedure in which the researcher manipulates variables to assess the effect of
one on the other.

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Experiment

35
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Selection of a sample in such a way that
each person in a population has an
equal and independent chance of
being chosen.

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Random selection

36
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Piaget’s term for changes in a cognitive
structure to include new information. - adjusting one’s cognitive structures to fit the new
information.

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Accommodation

37
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In an experiment, the condition that may
or may not change as a result of
changes in the independent variable

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Dependent variable

38
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Piaget’s term for the creation of
categories or systems of knowledge

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Organization

39
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System of established principles and
processes of scientific inquiry, which
includes identifying a problem to be
studied, formulating a hypothesis to be
tested by research, collecting data,
analyzing the data, forming tentative
conclusions, and disseminating findings.

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Scientific method

40
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Research design intended to discover
whether a statistical relationship between variables exists.

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correlational study

41
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The process by which a behavior is
strengthened, increasing the likelihood
that the behavior will be repeated.

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Reinforcement

42
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Research method in which behavior is
studied in natural settings without intervention or manipulation.

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naturalistic observation

43
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“Model that views human development
as a series of predictable responses to
stimuli.”
people are like machines
that react to environmental input.
Machines do not operate of their own will; they react automatically to physical forces
or inputs.

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Mechanistic Model

44
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A definition stated solely in terms of the
operations used to measure a
phenomenon.

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Operational definition

45
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“Learning theory that emphasizes the
predictable role of environment in
causing observable behavior.”
“a mechanistic theory that describes observed behavior as
a predictable response to experience. “

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Behaviorism

46
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The Russian psychologist “______________” (1896–1934) focused on the social and cultural processes that guide children’s
cognitive development.

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Lev Semenovich vygotsky

47
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Discontinuous changes in kind,
structure, or organization.

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Qualitative change

48
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“Baby’s chief source of pleasure
involves mouth-oriented
activities (sucking and feeding)” what stage is this?

A

Oral

49
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Piaget’s term for the tendency to seek
a stable balance among cognitive
elements; achieved through a balance
between assimilation and
accommodation.

A

Equilibiration

50
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“Adolescent must
determine own sense of self (“Who am I?”)
or experience confusion about roles.” what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

A

Identity VS Identity confusion (fidelity)

51
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Study of distinctive adaptive behaviors
of species of animals that have evolved
to increase survival of the species. / study of the adaptive behaviors of animal species in natural contexts.

A

Ethology

52
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Application of Darwinian principles of
natural selection and survival of the
fittest to individual behavior.

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Evolutionary psychology

53
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“Child develops initiative when trying
new activities and is not overwhelmed by guilt.” what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

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Initiative VS Guilt (purpose)

54
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Piaget’s theory that children’s cognitive
development advances in a series of
four stages involving qualitatively
distinct types of mental operations.

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Cognitive stage theory

55
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Research that deals with objectively
measurable data.

A

Quantitative research

56
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“Baby develops sense of
whether world is a good and safe place. “ what stage is this? and what it’s Virtue?

A

Basic trust VS Basic mistrust (Hope)

57
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represents reason,
develops gradually during the first year or so of life and operates under the reality
principle.

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ego

58
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View of human development as
shaped by unconscious forces that
motivate human behavior. (Hunger, sex, and aggression)

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Psychoanalytic perspective

59
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Study design that combines cross sectional and longitudinal techniques

A

Sequential study

60
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Learning based on association of behavior with its consequences. CONSEQUENCESSS!!!

A

operant conditioning

61
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an arrest in development that can show up in adult personality

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Fixation

62
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Assignment of participants in an experiment to groups in such a way that each person has an equal chance of being
placed in any group.

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Random assignment

63
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In-depth study of a culture, which uses
a combination of methods including
participant observation.

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Ethnographic study

64
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French philosopher “___________________” believed that children are born “noble savages” who develop according to their own positive natural tendencies if not corrupted by society.

A

Jean Jacques Rousseau

65
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Theory that behaviors are learned by
observing and imitating models. Also
called social cognitive theory

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Social learning theory

66
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In an experiment, a group of people,
similar to those in the experimental
group, who do not receive the treatment under study.

A

control group

67
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In an experiment, the condition over
which the experimenter has direct
control.

A

Independent variable

68
Q

“Child derives sensual
gratification from withholding
and expelling feces. Zone of
gratification is anal region, and
toilet training is important
activity.” what stage is this?

A

Anal

69
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Piaget’s term for adjustment to new
information about the environment,
achieved through processes of
assimilation and accommodation.

A

Adaption

70
Q

Study of a single subject, such as an
individual or family

A

case study

71
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Study designed to assess age changes
in a sample over time

A

longitudinal study

72
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Changes in number or amount, such as
in height, weight, size of vocabulary, or
frequency of communication.

A

Quantitative change

73
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operates under the
pleasure principle—the drive to seek immediate satisfaction of their needs and desires.

A

ID

74
Q

“Reemergence of
sexual impulses of phallic stage,
channeled into mature adult
sexuality” what stage is this?

A

Genital

75
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View that thought processes are central
to development. This perspective encompasses both organismic and mechanistically influenced theories

A

Cognitive perspective

76
Q

Piaget’s term for organized patterns of
thought and behavior used in particular
situations.

A

schemes

77
Q

Name Freud’s five stages of
development and three parts
of the personality?

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(3) Id, Ego, Superego
(5) Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

78
Q

Vygotsky’s theory of how contextual
factors affect children’s development

A

sociocultural theory

79
Q

English philosopher “_________” held that a young child is a tabula rasa—a “blank slate”—upon which society writes. How the child developed, in either positive or negative ways, depended entirely on
experiences.

A

John Locke

80
Q

Approach to the study of cognitive
development by observing and analyzing
the mental processes involved in
perceiving and handling information.

A

Information processing approach

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