Chapter 8 Flashcards
What are the 3 debates of human development?
- Stages/continuity
- Hereditary & environmental influences
- Life-course or life-span perspective
What examines physical, cognitive, & social-emotional changes over time?
Developments psychology
What refers to social behaviors, emotions, changes experienced in relationships, & overall disposition?
Social-emotional development
What involves maturation wherein the body follows a mainly biologically-driven progression?
Physical development
What includes changes in memory problem solving, decision making, language, & intelligence?
Cognitive development
Who’s research proposed that children think differently from adults & they experience cognitive development in distinct stages?
Jean Piaget
What is a collection of ideas that represent a basic Unit of understanding?
Schema
What is the term for using existing info and ideas to understand knew knowledge & experiences?
Assimilation
What term is restructuring of old ideas to make a place for new info?
Accommodation
What is the order of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development & example?
Sensorimotor- use of sensory & motor capabilities
Preoperational- egocentrism & not able to conserve & big imaginations.
Concrete operational- can conserve, not egocentric, reason logically.
Formal operational- more logical & systemically thinking.
Scaffolding is?
When children are pushed to go beyond their capabilities & competence.
Vygotsky proposed what? And what type of theorist is he?
That thoughts & human development results from the developing persons & their surrounding society. Sociocultural theorist.
What is the zone of proximal?
It is the new knowledge that is obtained through mentoring. In Between knowing something & not knowing something at all.
What type of theorist is erikson?
Psychosocial theorist
What did eriksons theory focus on?
Focused on human beings need to acquire attitudes & skills throughout their lives that make a positive contribution to their development & to society.
