Child Development Theory Flashcards

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Emphasizes overt behavior; what people do

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Behaviorism

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2
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Impact of historical, social, and cultural context

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Contextual(ism)

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3
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Focuses on the thought processes; what people think

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Cognitive/Interactionism

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4
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Focsues on emotions, unconscious determinants

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Psychodynamic/Analytic

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5
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Known as the inherent behavior

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Evolutionary Theory

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6
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These two gentleman were involved with classical conditioning expermients

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Watson & Pavlov

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7
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He found a method to decondition fears by using systematic desensitization

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Watson

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8
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The type of learning through repeated pairing of stimulus and response (focus on the stimulus)

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classical conditioning

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Focuses on how the consequences of a behavior affect the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated

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Operant Conditioning

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10
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Behavior is more likely to occur after the presentation

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positive reinforcement

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11
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Removing of a negative, or aversive, condition

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negative reinforcement

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12
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The application of unpleasant consequences to decrease the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated

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punishment

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13
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He was concerned with how the environment shapes people’s behaviors

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Skinner

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14
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Individuals are greatly influenced by other people

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Social Learning Theory

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15
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He believes that children and adults imitate, or model, the behavior of other people through modeling, which allows individuals to learn new behaviors

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Bandura

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16
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There are 4 steps to modeling:

HINT: A.R.M.R.M

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  • Attention*
  • Retention*
  • Motor Reproduction*
  • Reinforcement and Motivation*
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17
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He believed that children use different thought processes

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Jean Piaget

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18
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These are cognitive guides, blueprints for processing information

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schemes

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19
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Piaget stated that there are 4 stages of cognitive development in children:

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Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational Stage

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20
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This is the stage where the child interacts with the environment by manipulating objects

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Sensori-motor

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21
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The stage where a child’s manner of thinking is dominated by perception, is capable of symbolic functioning; language dvelopment occurs; and influenced by own perception of environment

(Preconceptual: 2-4 yrs / Intuitive 4-7 yrs)

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Preoperational

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22
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At this stage the child uses logic in problem solving; logical reasoning can only be applied to objects that are real or can be seen

(7-11 1/2 years)

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Concrete Operations

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23
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The child can think logically about potential events or abstract ideas

(11/12+)

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Formal Operations

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24
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Based on the idea that people have limited capacities for learning but can flexily apply strategies to find ways around those limitations

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Information Processing

25
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There are three stages in the Information Processing Theory:

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  • Environmental Stimuli (Input)*
  • Sensory Register (SR)*
  • Short-Term (working) Memory*
  • Long-Term Memory*
26
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Part of the Information Processing Theory where it allows people to briefly retain visual, auditory, and other information through the senses

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sensory register

27
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This is what allows for the information to be held long enough for the person to evaluate and selectively act on inputs

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short-term memory

28
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Storing of information for a long period of time

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Long-term memory

29
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This man believed that “sexual energy” is innately driven to specific errogenous zones

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Freud

30
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The five stages that Freud proposed in the Psychosexual Theory

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

31
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A person who did not achieve full satisfaction of errogenous zones is said to develop this _____

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fixation

32
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He proposed that individuals go through a series of stages representing psychosocial crises
(represent critical periods in personality development)

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Erikson

33
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In this stage the child develops a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability, care, and affection

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Trust vs Mistrust

34
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Ability to do things for oneself

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Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt

35
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High and realistic sense of ambition and independence

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Initiative vs Guilt

36
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Active and satisfying involvment in activities

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Industry vs Inferiority

37
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Determination of one’s identity

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Identity vs Identity Diffusion

38
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Ability to commit to another and establish a close, loving relationship

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Intimacy vs Isolation

39
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Incorporation of the needs of others into one’s personal life

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Generativity vs Stagnation

40
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Health adjustment to aging and mortality

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Integrity vs Despair

41
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The distance between what a child can do unaided and what a child can do through interaction with skilled helpers is called _____

HINT: Vygotsky

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zone of proximal development

42
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This occurs with support of the MKO (More Knowledgeable Other)

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scaffolding

43
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Theory based on interplay between child and environments; multiple interacting systems influence development

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Ecological Model

*Bronfenbrenner

44
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Inner sphere of ecological model, represents the immediate environment and includes influences such as physical objects, structure of the environment, and roles of relationships among family members

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microsystem

45
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Middle sphere of ecological model, connections among settings including child (school, extended family)

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Mesosystem

46
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Part of the model that represents linkages among settings in which do not include the child (work, church, friends, etc.)

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exosystem

47
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Outermost sphere of the ecological model, represents societal values

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Macrosystem

48
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Theory based on the idea that complex systems form from basic and simple conditions without adhering to a master plan for development

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Dynamic Systems Theory

49
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Survival of the fittest

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Charles Darwin

50
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Imprinting

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Lorenz

51
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Attachment

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Bowlby

52
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Maturation

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Gesell

53
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There are 3 components to the Psychoanalytic Theory

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  • Id, Ego,* and Superego
  • *Freud*
54
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The Id, the most primal of the three is run by this principle

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pleasure

55
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This is part of your personality that helps ground you and doesn’t let your instinctive emotion take over

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Ego

56
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The Ego, operates with this principle of helping you get your desires in a socially acceptable manner

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reality principle

57
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The Ego will use another principle by finding a replacement in which matches your original desire

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secondary principle

58
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The big brother of the personalities, it is comprised of morals and standards

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Superego