Developmental psychology

Question 1

Domains of development

Answer 1

physical, social +emotional and cognitive

Question 2

Prenatal period

Answer 2

9month from conception to birth

Question 3

Infancy

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0-1 year

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toddlerhood

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1-2 year

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Early childhood

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2-6 years

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Middle and late childhood

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6-11 years

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Entering adulthood

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11-18 years

Question 8

Adulthood

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20+ years

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Old age

Answer 9

60+ years

Question 10

Nature

Answer 10

genes and hereditary factors, physical appearance, personality characteristics

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Nuture

Answer 11

childhood experiences, social relo’s and upbringing

Question 12

Critical periods

Answer 12

evidence to suggest that some key skills are acquired at certain stages

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Genes

Answer 13

Dominant, recessive and polygenic

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Epigenetics

Answer 14

area of research that shows how enviro influences a Childs experiences- actually effects the expression of their genes

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Teratogens

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chemical substances that can cause damage to the embryo or foetus during development

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Why theories are important

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allow you to make predictions and interpret data

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Maturationism

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Development happens in terms of certain- “maturational timetables” caterpillar>butterfly

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Behaviourist approach

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that behaviour is learned through experience and interaction with the enviro

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Cognitive development

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Theory seeks to bridge genetic and social accounts

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egocentricity

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a pre operational Childs inability to appreciate the possibility of a perspective other than their own

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Centration

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exclusive focus on one salient aspect of a problem

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Lack of reversibility

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can’t grasp that the effects of events are reversed when a process is reversed

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Conservation

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a recognition that some properties of an object remain fundamentally unchanged even if there are external changes in appearance

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Concrete operations

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being able to focus on more than one feature of a situation at a time

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Formal operations

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occur at 11+ formal, abstract and rational thought, hypothetical thinking

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Assimilation

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adding of info to existing structure

Question 27

accommodation

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reorganising the structure to take account for new, inconsistent info