Chapter 2: Theories of Development Flashcards

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What are the five theories we will be discussing in this chapter? (5)

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-biology and evolutionary
-psychoanalytic
-learning
-cognitive
-systems

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What is the biological or evolutionary theories main ideas?

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-genetic and epigenetic factors interact with the environment to shape us

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What is the epigenome?

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-molecular compound that instructs the genome to turn off and on genes

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What are psychoanalytic theories?

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-personaltiy and behaviours are shaped by interacting or dynamic underlying forces (like the unconscious)

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What are the 3 parts of Freud’s theory on personality?

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-Id, ego and superego

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What is the id?

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-contains the libido, largely unconscious and present at birth

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What is the ego?

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-operates according to what is realistic and develops due to learning in the first few years

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What is the superego?

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-moral guide or conscience and develops around age 6

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What is Erikson’s psychosocial theory?

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-lifespan theory with 8 psychosocial stages

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What does each psychosocial stage in Eriksons theory have?

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-a crisis to resolve resulting in pairing opposing possibilities

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What does the humanistic perspective focus on?

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-positive aspects of development, consciousness and free will

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What are deficiency motives?

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-in Maslow’s hierarchy these are drives to maintain physical and emotional balance

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What are being motives in Maslow’s hierarchy?

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-drives for growth and to fulfill your potential

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What did Rogers (humanistic) believe? Example. (2)

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-overcome conditions of worth put on us by the people in our lives
-example: I need to be a straight A student in order for my parents to love me

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What does learning theories focus on (behaviourism)? What would be an example of this? (2)

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-how experiences in the environment shape the child
-through classical or operant conditioning

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What is an example of positive reinforcement?

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You give a child a piece of candy every time they clean their room. (increases behaviour)

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What is an example of a negative reinforcement?

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The seatbelt alarm turns off when you buckle your seatbelt up. (increases behaviour)

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What is an example of positive punishment?

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Spraying your cat with water when they jump on the counter (decreasing behaviour)

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What is an example of negative punishment?

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A teenager stays out past curfew, so their parents take away their car keys for a week. (decreasing behaviour)

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What are the four theories under the cognitive theories umbrella? (4)

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-Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory
-information processing theory
-Vygotskys sociocultural theory
-Bandura’s social cognitive theory

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What does Piaget’s theory focus on?

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-how does thinking develop and has 4 stages of development, water in smaller cup

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What does the information-processing theory focus on?

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-they use the computer as a model and this is where memory is broken down into encoding, storage and retrieval

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What does Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory focus on?

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-developing cognitive skills are guided by social interactions (scaffolding)

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What does Bandura’s social cognitive theory focus on?

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-observational learning through modelling and reciprocal determinism

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What does systems theory focus on?
-development exists within a whole bunch of factors, including personal and external (it cannot be understood within isolation) and changes in any tiny aspect of the system will influence our development
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What are some terms in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory?
-macrosystem, ecosystem, microsystem, mesosystem, individual context
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