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Developmental Psychology Flashcards

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Nature and Nurture

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When genetic inheritance interacts with experiences to influence development

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Developmental Psychology

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Study of physical, cognitive, and psychological changes
-focused on childhood

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Longitudinal research

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Studies the same participants over a long period of time

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Problems with longitudinal research

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-expensive
-long wait times
-attrition (drop outs)

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Cross sectional research

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Studies groups of participants of different ages at the same time

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Problem with cross sectional research

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Cohort effects (differences in experience)

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Habituation

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Decreased response to stimulus after repeated presentations
Eg. Wearing perfume day after day

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Zygote

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Fertilized egg that develops into an embryo

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Embryo

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The developing human organism (2 weeks after fertilization)

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Fetus

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Developing human organism (9 weeks after conception to birth)

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Teratogens

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Chemicals or viruses that reach the embryo or fetus and cause harm

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FAS

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children cause by alcohol consumption during pregnancy

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Cognition

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Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating

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Jean Piaget

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Belief that intelligence develops qualitatively (in stages) as well as quantitatively

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Sensorimotor stage

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(birth to 2 years)
Learn to coordinate sensory experience and motor behaviour

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Object permanence

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Awareness that things continue to exist when not perceived

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Preoperational stage

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(age 2 to 7 years)
Language is more sophisticated but still have trouble with mental manipulation of information

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Conservation

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Properties of mass, volume, and numbers remain the same despite changes in form

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Egocentrism

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Difficulty perceiving things from another point of view

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Concrete operational stage

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(age 7 to 11)
Children gain mental operations to think logically about concrete events

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Formal operational stage

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(age 12)
Children can think abstractly and logically

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Attachment theory

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An attachment to whoever provides an infant with food
Eg. Harlow’s monkeys

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Conclusion of Harlow’s Monkey experiment

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Comfort and security creates attachment not just association with feeding

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Who identified attachment theory

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John Bowlby

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Theory of mind

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People have different thoughts and feelings that might guide their behaviour

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