Chapter 9: Lifespan Development Flashcards
developmental psych
study of age-related changes in physical, cognitive, and social dev - from conception to death
three domains
dev is a liflong process that can be stgudied scientifically across 3 dev domains
physical dev
growth/changes in body/brain, senses motor skills, health/wellness
cognitive dev
learning, attention, memory, lanaguage, thinking, reasoning, and creativty
psychosocial dev
emotions, personality, and social relationship
normative approach
what normal dev is
- compare indiv dev to group averages
dev milestones
specific normative events when children walk, talk, etc..
continous dev
involves gradual, ongoig changes thu out lfe span w. beh in earlier stagtes provide basis of skills/abilities required for next stages
discontinous dev
distinct and sep stages (step-wise increase) w/ diff kinds of beh occurin in each sgtage
- suggest that cdrtain abailities in eahc stage like specific emotions or ways of thinking, jave definite standing/ending point
middle ground
some characterisitics are continuous and some are discontinous
is there 1 course of dev or many
is dev essentially the same for all kids (one coujrse) or does dev follow a diff course for each kid, depending on kid’s geentics and environment (many courses)
nature
genetic profile, biological influjeneces were born w/
nurture
environmental factors that shape dev
- not an either or; relative weight (how much determined by genes/environment)
psychosexual theory of development
personaloty is mostly estblished by age of 5
fixation
remaining preoccupied w/ issues of earlier dev stage
psychosocial theory of development is
emphasizes social nature of our dev
trust vs mistrust
cafreguvers who are responsible/sensitve help baby devllop semse of trust
autonomy vs shame/doubt
main task = working to establish independence
iniative vs guilt
initating activities and asserting control ove their world thru social interactions/play
initiative vs inferiority
begin to compare themselves to others
identiy vs confusion
main task = dev a sense of oneself
intimacy vs isolation
ready to share info w/ others
generativity vs stagnation
main task = work/contribute to dev of other thru activitieslike volunteering/mentoring
integrity vs despair
reflect on life
cogniive theory of dev
piaget’s stage theory involve changes in cognitive procxess/abilities
- cognitive dev is quantitive; think diff as we grow up
schematas AKA schemas
categories of knowledge
- help us understand/interpret world
- know what to expect (liek going to restaurant)
(cog theory of dev)
assimilation
process of taking new info in our prev existing schems
- child ADDING info to schema about what they already know about dogs
(cog theory of dev)
accomodations
chaning/altering our existing schemas iin light if new info
- kid have to create new schema when child leafrns that cats are not dogs
(cog theory of dev)
sensorimotor stage
birth - 2
- infant try to make sense of world
object permanence
kids undertsandinmg that ob jects continue to exist when they cant be seen/heard
(sensorimotor stage)
animism
belief that everythinhg is alive
(sensorimotor stage)
preopeational stage
2 - 7
- langauge dev
conservation
properties of an object, such as mass and volume, stay the same even though objects appearnaces change
(preoperational stage)
egocentrism
inability to take on perspective of others
- donmt undertsand othersw cant see what they see/experience world differently than they do
(preoperational stage)
concrete operations
7 - 11
- kids get better ubderstanding of mentla operations (can think logically)
reversibility
awareness that actions/relationships b/w mental categories can be reversed
(concrete operations)