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Development Psychology

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  • Studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
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Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

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  • 8 Stages
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Teratogens

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  • Agents that can reach the embryo or fetus and cause harm
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Jean Piaget

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  • Believed that a child’s mind developed through the stages
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Schema

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Framework that organizes and interprets information

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Piaget’s theory

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4 major stages:
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete Operational
- Formal operational

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Sensorimotor Stage

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  • Understanding the world through senses and actions
  • Development of Object permanence
  • (Today: Object permanence develops gradually not suddenly)
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Preoperational Stage

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  • able to represent things with language but does not understand mental operations of concrete logic
  • (Today: Children as young as 4.5 have shown theory of mind)
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Concrete Operational Stage

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  • Mental operations that enable logical thinking about concrete events
  • Transitivity
  • Reversibility
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Formal operational Stage

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  • people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
  • (Today: Formal operations may develop earlier than what Piaget thought)
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Transitivity

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ability to recognize relationships in serial order

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Reversibility

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Ability to recognize that objects can be changed and returned to their original position

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Lev Vygotski

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  • Emphasized how the mind grows through interaction with social environment
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  • Social interactions offer children a _____ to higher levels of thinking
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Scaffold

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Scaffold

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  • Framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking
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Zone of proximal development

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Skills a child cannot do by themselves yet but can do with guidance

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Important development in early childhood

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  • Self concept: Thoughts and feelings about ourselves
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Attachment

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  • An emotional tie with another person
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Harlow’s Monkeys

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  • preferred the clothed “comfy” mother to the wire one that provided food
  • Used mother as a secure base to explore the world
  • Cling to “comfy” mother when anxious (safe haven)
  • The importance of touch
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Imprinting

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  • Process by which certain animals form strong attachments during a critical period
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Attachment styles

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  • Secure attachment
  • Anxious preoccupied
  • Dismissive Avoidant
  • Disorganized
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Nicolae Ceausescu

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  • Criminalized contraception and abortion
  • Taxed families with fewer than 5 children
  • Ceausescu’s children/ “Decreței”
  • 15 to 1 child to caregiver ratios
  • “Neurocognitive impairment, impulsivity, and attention and social deficits”
  • Final question on exam: ATTACHMENT, TOUCH, LOVE AND AFFECTION NEEDED LIKE FOOD AND WATER
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Authoritative parenting style

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Confrontive, demanding and responsive, “I love you, let’s talk about it”

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Adolescence

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  • Transition period from childhood to adulthood
  • Puberty
  • Selective pruning
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Selective pruning

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Development of unused neurons and connections are stopped

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Kohlberg’s Levels of Morality

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  • Preconventional Morality
  • Conventional Morality
  • Post conventional morality
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Identity

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Adolescent’s developmental task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles - (Erickson)

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True or false, couples who live together prior to marriage have higher rates of divorce

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True

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True/false, there are identical and predictable stages to grief

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True

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Erikson hypothesized this was a primary developmental task that involved solidifying a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles in adolescence.

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Identity

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