Developmental psychology Flashcards

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Developmental Psychology

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The study of changes over the life span in physicology, cognition, emotion and social behavior.

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Synaptic pruning

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The phyiscological process of preserving synaptic connections that are used and elimnating those that are not used.

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Tetratogens

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Agents that harm the embryoor fetus

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Dynamic systems theory

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The view that development is a self organizing process, in which new forms of behavuor emerge through consistent interactions between a person and cultural and enviromental contexts.

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Habituation technique

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A way to study how infants catergorize a series of objects such as faces based on the principle that after looking at objects that are all from the same catergory babies will look for a longer time at objects from a new catergory.

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Infantile amnesia

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The inability to remeber events from early childhood.

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Attachement

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A strong intimate emotional connection between people that presists over time and across circumstances.

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Assimilation

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The procecss by which new informationis placed into exisiting scheme

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Accomodation

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The process by which a new scheme is created or an exstisting scheme is drastically altered to include new information that otherwise would not fit into the scheme.

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Sensorimotor stage

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The first stage in Paget’s theory of cognitive development during this stage infants acquire information about the world through their senses and motor skills. Reflexive responses develop into more delibrate actions through the development and refinemnet of scehemes.

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Object permanence

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The understanding that an object continues to exist even when it can not be seen.

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Preoperational stage

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The second stage in piaget’s theory of cognitive development during this stage children think symbolically about objects but they reason based on intuition and superficial appereance rather than logic.

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Concrete operational stage

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The third stage in piaget’s theory of cognitive development during this stage children begin to think about and understand logical operations and they are no longer fooled by appereances.

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Formal operational stage

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The final stage in piaget’s theory of cognitive development inthis stage people can think abstractly and they can formulate and test hypotheses through deductive logic.

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Theory of mind

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Tje baility to understand that other people have mental states that influence their behavior.

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Preconventional level

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Earliest stage of moral development at this level self intrest and event outcomes determine what is moral.

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conventional level

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Middle stage of moral development at this level strict adherence to societal rules and the approval of others determine what is moral.

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post conventional level

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Highest stage of moral development at this level descions about morality depend on abstract principles and the valise of all life.

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Inequity aversion

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A perference to avoid unfairness when making descions about the distribution resource

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Puberty

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The beginning of adolescence marked by the onset of sexual maturity and thus the ability to reproduce.

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Linguistic relativity theory.

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The claim that language determines thought.

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Telegraphic theory

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the way toddlers speak using rudimentary sentences that are missing words and gramaticalmarkings but follow a logical syntax and convey wealth meaning.

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surface structure

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In language the sound and order of words

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Deep structure

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In langugae the implicit meanings of sentences

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Gender identity

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One’s sense of being male and female or nonbinary

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Gender role

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a behavior that is typically associated with being male or female.

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Personality

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a persons characterstic thoughts emotional responses and behaviors

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personality trait

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a pattern of thought emotion and behavior that is relatively consistent over time and acorss situation

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Temperaments

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Biologically based tendencies to feel or act in certain ways.

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Interactionism

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The thoery that behavior is determined jointly by situations and underlying dispositions.