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DEVPSYCH - TERMS Flashcards

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focuses on the scientific study of the systematic processes of change and stability in people

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Human development

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concept of human development as lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically

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Life-span development

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views development as lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss.

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life-span perspective

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What are the domains of development

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Physical Development
Cognitive Development
Psychosocial Development

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growth of the body and brain

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Physical Development

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learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning and creativity

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Cognitive Development

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emotions, personality, and social relationships

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Psychosocial Development

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concept or practice that is an invention of a particular culture or society

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Social Construction

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involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or change

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Stability-Change Issue

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focuses on the degree to which development involves either gradual cumulative change (continuity) or distinct stages (discontinuity)

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Continuity-Discontinuity

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unfolding of mental sequence of physical change and behavior patterns

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Maturation

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scientific study of the extent to which genetic and environmental differences among people and animals are responsible for differences in their traits

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Behavioral Genetics

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proportion of all variability in the trait within a large sample of people that can be linked to genetic differences among those individuals

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Heritability

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Who studied the heredity in plants

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Gregor Mendel

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attempting to breed animals for a particular trait to determine whether the trait is heritable

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Selective Breeding

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3 types of genetic studies

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Twin Studies
Adoption Studies
Family Studies

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the percentage of pairs of people studied in which if one member of a pair displays the trait, the other does too

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Concordance Rate

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Genes turn on and off in patterned ways throughout the lifespan

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Epigenetics

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the effects of genes depend on what kind of environment we experience and how we respond to the environment

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Gene-Environment Interaction

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3 factors that contribute to individual differences in emotionality

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Gene
Shared environmental influences
Non-shared environmental influences

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The basic unit through which genetic information is stored and passed between generations.

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Genes

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common experiences that work to make them similar (e.g. parenting style)

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Shared environmental influences

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unique experiences to the individual those who are not shared with other members of the family (e.g., parental favoritism)

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Non-shared environmental influences

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3 kinds of Gene-environment correlations

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Passive Gene- Environment
Evocative Gene-Environment
Active Gene-Environment

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parent provide for their children is influenced partly by the parents’ genotypes

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Passive Gene-environment

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child’s genotype evokes certain kind of reactions from other people

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Evocative Gene-environment

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children’s genotype influence the kinds of environment they seek

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Active Gene-Environment

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consists of inborn traits and characteristics provided by the child’s parents (Nature)

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Heredity

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influences stems from the outside body, starting from conception throughout life (Nurture)

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Environment

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people differ in gender, height, weight, and body build; in health and energy level, etc.

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Individual differences

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Nuclear and Extended Family

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Family

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What are the Context of Development

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Family
Socioeconomic Status
Culture
Gender
History

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combination of economic and social factors describing an individual or family, including income, education, and occupation

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Socioeconomic Status

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society’s or group’s total way of life

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Culture

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What are the 2 types of Culture

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Ethnic Gloss
Race

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overgeneralization that obscures or blurs variations

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Ethnic Gloss

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identifiable biological category, is more accurately defined social construct

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Race

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social construct and generally based on the norms, behaviors, and societal roles expected of individuals based primarily on their sex.

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Gender

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study of the prior events and the lives of people.

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History

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biological or environmental events that affect many or most people in a society in a similar ways and events that touch only certain individuals

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Normative influences

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What are the 2 types of Normative influences

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Normative Age-Graded influences
Normative History - graded influences

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group of people who experience the event at a formative time in their lives

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Historical Generation

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group of people born at about the same time

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Age Cohort

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What are the two types of Normative History - Graded Influences

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Historical Generation
Age Cohort

45
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unusual events that have major impact on individual lives because they disturb the expected sequence of the life cycle

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Non-normative

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instinctively follow the first moving object they see

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imprinting

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specific time when a given event , or its absence, has a specific impact on development

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Critical Period

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when developing person is especially responsive to certain kind of experience

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Sensitive Period

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modifiability of performance; the capacity to be shaped, molded, or altered; neuroplasticity, then, is the ability for the brain to adapt or change over time, by creating new neurons and building new networks.

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Plasticity

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set of logically related concepts or statements that seek to describe and explain development and to predict the kinds of behavior that might occur under certain conditions

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Theory

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explanations or predictions that can be tested further by research

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Hypothesis

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father of cognitive psychology - Tabula Rasa / Blank State

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John Locke

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a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment era. He is best remembered for his views on political and moral philosophy - in other words, on human nature and human dynamics.

He states that children are born “noble savages” who develop according to their own positive natural tendencies if not corrupted by society

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

54
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people are like machines that react to environmental input

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Mechanistic Model

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people as active, growing organism that set their own development in motion; initiate events, and do not just react

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Organismic Model

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gradual and incremental

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continuous

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abrupt or uneven

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discontinous

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change in number or amount, such as height, weight, or vocabulary size

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Quantitative Change

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emergence of new phenomena that could not be easily predicted on the basis of the past basic functioning

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Qualitative Change

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emphasized the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and “survival of the fittest” in shaping behavior

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Evolutionary Psychology

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