Development Catch-All Flashcards

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Vygotsky’s Concepts

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  • Language: Child learns through social engagement
  • Emphasized role of culture on development
  • Zone of Proximal Development: tasks just beyond child’s comprehension that can be learned using:
  • Scaffolding: changing level of support as students develop, less guidance given
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Solitary Play

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  • Child playing alone in a room full of kids.

Vs: parallel play- two children playing blocks simultaneously but not talking
Vs: Associative play- two children building same thing, talking but not working together
Vs: Cooperative play- working together

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Differences between Adult and Childhood Depression

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  • Somatic Complaints (stomach aches, etc)

- Irritability

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Adolescence and Common Stressors

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  • Power Hierarchies
  • Puberty/ hormones
  • Sexuality
  • Social / Peer Groups
  • School
  • Drugs / Alcohol
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Risks to Early Adulthood Development (26-35)

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  • Depression
  • Body Image Concerns
  • Substance Abuse
  • Violence (car crashes, suicide, homicide)
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Counseling Issues during Middle Adulthood (36-60)

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Central Themes:

  • Consolidation (consolidating priorities)
  • Reassessment is life goals
  • Refinement (focus on specific goals: getting healthy, etc)
  • Ageism, physical changes, career changes, midlife crisis
  • Somatic Stress
  • Cultural Stress
  • Economic Stress
  • Psychological Stress
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Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory

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Microsystem: Immediate- SES, Work, Family, Peers

Mesosystem: Interactions between microsystems- parents reject child and they have trouble making friends as a result

Exosystem: Indirect environment- community, local laws

Macrosystem: Social/cultural, national laws

Chronosystem: changes over time- family history, sociohistorical,

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