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First Test (Ch1-4) Flashcards

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1
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What is the general age range for adolescence

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10-18ish years

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2
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What is age range for emerging adult

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18-25ish years

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What are the domains of Development? (6)

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  1. Cognitive development
  2. Personality development
  3. Moral development
  4. Social development
  5. Sexual development
  6. Physiological development
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4
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First CHILD (adolescent) phycologist

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Stanley G Hall

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What does Emerging adulthood involve

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  1. identity exploration
  2. instability
  3. self focus
  4. feeling in between
  5. possibilities/optimism
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Definition of puberty

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biological change in adolescents anatomy, physiology, and physical appearance that leads to one being biologically prepared for sexual reproduction.

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Where does initiation of puberty start

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Hypothalamus

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What role does the hypothalamus play in puberty

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it starts increasing the production of gonadotropin (GnRH)

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9
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What is the signal for puberty to start

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Leptin

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What is cognitive development

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changes over time in how people think, how they solve problems, and how their capacities for memory and attention change

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Who is the biggest cognitive development person

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Jean Piaget

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12
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what is a schema

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structures for organizing and interpreting information

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assimilation

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new information is altered to fit within an existing scheme.

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Accommodation

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scheme is changed, or a new one added to adapt to new.

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What are the aspects of Formal operations

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  1. abstract thinking
  2. metacognition
  3. complex thinking …..hypothetical complex thinking
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What is beyond Piaget stages

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  1. Pragmatism 2. Reflective judgement
17
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What is pragmatism

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adapting logical thinking to the practical constraints of the real world … the emerging adult recognized how there will be limitations due to social factors and other variables (what school will I get into. what if I don’t)

18
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Another name for dialectical thought

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Basseches

19
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what is dialectical thought

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type of thinking that develops in emerging adulthood (finding the grey between the black and white)

20
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Reflective Judgement

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the capacity to evaluate the accuracy if evidence and arguments (gut check)

21
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Relativism

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this includes understanding that multiple points of view have merit and value

22
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Information Processing Theory

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Rather than viewing cognitive development as dis-contintinous stages, IP theory sees it as continous (less on development and more on how thinking works)

23
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What are the aspects of information processing theory

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  1. attention (sensory organs) 2. processing 3. memory
24
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selective attention

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ability to focus on relevant information while screening our information that is irrelevant

25
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Divided attention

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splitting your attentional focus to more than one thing - reading and listening to music

26
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aspects of short term memory

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  1. 7 +/- 2 2. there is limited capacity 3. time limit
27
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aspects of long term memory

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  1. you can draw on it later 2. recall (dig from brain) 3. Recognition (see a list) 4. infinite capacity and unlimited times
28
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How does memory get from short term to long term

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mnemonic devices and repetition

29
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Automacity

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how much cognitive effort we need to devote to processing information (repetition repetition repetition)

30
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What is executive functioning

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the ability to control and manage cognitive functions FRONTAL LOBE

31
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overproduction and exuberance

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peaks around 12 years old exuberance = pruning

32
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pruning

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killing the unneeded neurons and this is called pruning (12-20y/o)

33
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cultural beliefs

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the commonly held norms and moral standards of a culture, the standards of right and wrong that set expectations for behavior

34
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what is symbolic inher8itance

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a set of ideas and understandings both implicit and explicit about persons, society, nature and divinity.

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