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Deverlopmental Psychology Flashcards

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What does developmental psychology examine?

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Changes in physical, biological, psychological & behavioural processes as we age

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What are the critical & sensitive periods?

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Critical period = age where experiences must occur
Sensitive period = optimal age range

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What is Visual Mapping Change?

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  1. No change (constant)
  2. Continuous (gradual changes)
  3. Stages (discontinuous changes)
  4. Inverted U-shape
  5. U-shape function
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What is inverted U-shape?

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Emerges early - peaks
- diminishes with age

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What is U-shape function?

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Emerges early - disappears
- re-emerges

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What are Research Designs?

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Longitudinal, Cross-sectional, Sequential (Cohort - sequential)

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What is longitudinal research design?

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Test some cohort at different times

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What is Cross-sectional research?

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Compare different ages at some time

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What is sequential research?

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Test several cohorts as they age,
Pros and cons of both longitudinal and cross-sectional

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What are longitudinal pros and cons?

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  • Some people (reduces variability across samples)
  • Red conclusions about development
  • Time-consuming
  • People drop out
  • Generalizability
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What are the pros of Cross-sectional?

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Data from many age groups (fast)

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What are the cons of cross-sectional research?

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  • Cohort effects
  • Different experiences, cultural changes, environmental changes (e.g. iPod, cloud, ChatGPT)
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What is genotype?

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  • Actual genetic ‘instructions’
  • ‘Blueprint’
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What is phenotype?

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  • Expressed
  • Observable, visible
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What are the 3 stages of Prenatal Development?

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  • Gestalt stage
  • Embryonic stage
  • Fetal stage
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What is gestalt stage?

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(2 weeks)
- zygote (about 1 week)
- blastocyst attaches to uterine wall (placenta)

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What is embryonic stage?

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  • 2nd-8th week
  • placenta & umbilical cord develop - basic systems
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What is fetal stage?

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  • begins at 9th week
  • refinement, growth
  • brain development
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What environmental influences negatively impact prenatal development?

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Teratogens
Maternal malnutrition
Maternal stress (stress hormones)

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How do teratogens negatively impact prenatal development?

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Environmental agents that may cause abnormal development

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How does maternal malnutrition negatively impact prenatal development?

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Miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, impaired brain development

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How does maternal stress negatively impact prenatal development?

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Premature birth, infant irritability, attentional deficits

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What can newborns do?

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  • can discriminate different speech sounds
  • can acquire classically conditioned responses
  • can do simple observational learning (initiate adult facial expressions)
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How do the reflexes of motor development work?

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Innate behaviours
- startle (moro)
- babinski (foot)
- blink
Disappear (some stay - some signal trouble)

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How do most skills follow stage-like sequences of motor development?

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  • Age of acquiring skill varies
  • Sequence does not
  • Some have U-shaped function (stepping reflex)
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What is Cognitive Development?

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Children are not ‘adults in miniature’
- thinking changes ‘qualitatively’
- natural-born “scientists”
- actively explore & seek to understand their world

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What are schemas?

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Modified to create equilibrium between environment & understanding

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What are the stages of Piaget’s stage model?

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Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage

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What is sensorimotor stage?

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  • from birth to 2 years
  • understand world through sensory experiences/physical interactions with objects
  • begin to acquire language
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What is object permanence?

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  • Understanding objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen
  • Mental/cognitive representations (about 8 months)
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What is preoperational stage?

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  • ages 2-7
  • world represented symbolically through words and mental images
  • symbolic thinking enable pretend play
  • child doesn’t understand conversation
  • thinking displays irreversibility (appearance/reality), centration, animism, egocentrism
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What is concrete operational stage?

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  • ages 7-12
  • easily perform basic mental operations involving tangible (concrete) problems and situations
  • often have difficulty with abstract reasoning
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What is the formal operational stage?

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  • develops around 11 or 12
  • can think logically about concrete & abstract problems
  • able to form & test hypotheses
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What are Information-Processing Approaches?

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  • development is continuous and gradual
  • not stage-like
  • cognitive growth occurs as information processing abilities gradually become more efficient
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How do children process information as they age?

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  • information - search strategies improve
  • information - processing speed quickens
  • memory capabilities improve
  • metacognition develops
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What is the theory of mind for cognitive development?

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  • beliefs about how the mind works & what others are thinking
  • lying, deception provide evidence for theory of mind
  • rudimentary understanding develops around 3 to 4
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What is temperament of emotional and social development?

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  • biologically based style of behaviour & emotional reactions
  • can be relatively stable but predictions are difficult
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What is attachment?

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Strong emotional bond between children & primary caregivers

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How does Harlow explain attachment?

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Contact comfort more important than nourishment in fostering attachment

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What is the attachment process?

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  • Asocial phase (newborn-6 weeks)
  • Indiscriminate attachment behaviours (6 weeks - 7 months)
  • specific attachment behaviour (7-8 months)
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What is stranger anxiety?

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  • 6-7 to 18 months
  • distress over contact with unfamiliar people
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What is separation anxiety?

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  • 12-16 months to 2-3 years
  • distress over being separated from primary caregiver
  • shows similar pattern across cultures
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What is secure attachment?

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  • explore & react positively to strangers
  • distressed when mother leaves
  • happy when mother returns
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What are the 3 types of insecure attachment?

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Resistant, avoidant, disorganized (mix of both)

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What are the consequences of attachment?

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  • secure infants better socially adjusted, academic gains
  • insecure infants more behavioural problems
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What is the consequence of attachment for infancy?

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infancy = sensitive but not critical period
- prolonged attachment deprivation = long-term risks
- not all in deprived environments at risk (resilience; negative stuff is dismissed; find supports)

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How does physical development affect adolescence?

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  • Adolescence begins at puberty (rapid maturation in which person becomes capable of reproduction)
  • Primary & secondary sex characteristics mature
  • menarche & production of sperm occur
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How does psychological outcomes of physical changes affect adolescence?

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  • effects on mood and behaviour
  • timing & perception of whether maturation is early or late is important
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How does cognitive development affect adolescence?

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  • increase in abstract reasoning abilities
  • more flexible and creative thinking
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What is adolescent egocentrism of adolescence & social development?

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  • overestimation of uniqueness of feelings, experiences (personal fable)
  • oversensitivity to social evaluation (imaginary audience)
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What is identity formation of adolescence?

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  • Erikson
  • Identity = sense of who we are, where we are going, how we fit into society
  • resolve confusion about which way to go
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What are the 3 levels of Kohlberg’s Stage Theory for Moral development?

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Level 1: Preconventional Reasoning
Level 2: Conventional Reasoning
Level 3: Postconventional Reasoning

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What is Kohlberg’s Stage Theory?

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Analyzed responses to ethical dilemma
- 3 levels with 2 substages each

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What is Preconventional Reasoning of Kohlberg’s Stage Theory?

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  • Judgments of ‘right’ & ‘wrong’ based on actual or anticipated punishments & reward
  • Judgments not based on internalized moral values
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What is Conventional Reasoning of Kohlberg’s Stage Theory?

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  • moral judgments based on conformity to expectations of social groups
  • person adopts other people’s values/social order
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What is Postconventional Reasoning of Kholberg’s Stage Theory?

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  • More judgments based on general principle
  • Principles have been internalized & are part of person’s value system (following one’s conscience)
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What are the criticisms of Kohlberg’s Theory?

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  • Western cultural bias
  • Gender bias
  • emphasis on thinking not behaviour
  • moral development occurs within social context
  • cognitive + behavioural components
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What is Carol Giligan’s criticism of Kohlberg’s theory?

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  • His theory emphasized justice
  • Women place value on caring
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What is the physical development of adulthood and aging?

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  • muscles weaken, body becomes less flexible
  • basal metabolism slows
  • visual activity, fertility decline (menopause)
  • many middle-aged adults remain vigorously active
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What is the Cognitive Development of adulthood and aging?

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  • perceptual speed declines
  • long term memory declines/slower
  • spatial memory for object location declines
  • memory recall declines more strongly from recognition
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What factors are linked to enhanced cognitive function?

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  • Above-average education
  • cognitively stimulating lives
  • spouse with greater intellectual capabilities
  • processing information more quickly

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