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Historical Perspective, Scientific Theories & Themes Flashcards

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

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  • Origin of species

* Baby Biographies

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Arnold Gesell (1880-1961)

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  • U.S Born
  • Psychologist & physician
  • Nativist; Maturation (born with knowledge)
  • Mapped out observing children, developed the growth chart
  • believed children should be studied biologically
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Konrad Lorenz (1930’s)

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  • Zoologist/ethologist
  • Looked into IMPRINTING
  • Whoever is seen first is considered to be the caregiver to the infant
  • Found that there are sensitive periods in language in bonding; child should see the caregiver to create a strong bond
  • Critical period has not been found
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John Bowly (1960’s-1980’s)

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  • Ethology & Psychoanalystical
  • Bowlby’s attachment theory
  • Emotional bond btwn. caregiver that develops during sensitive period.
  • Children’s emotional issues is a result of lack of attachment to a primary caregiver during infancy
  • Infants are born WITH characteristics meant to keep the mother close & nurturing (i.e: smell, soft skin)
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What are the developmental stages?

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  • Conception to birth
  • Infancy & toddlerhood
  • Early childhood, preschool
  • Middle childhood, school age
  • Adolescence
  • Emerging adulthood
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What is the age range of conception to birth?

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~9 months

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What is the age range of infancy & toddlerhood?

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Birth to 3

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What is the age range of early childhood, preschool?

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3 to 5

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What is the age range of Middle childhood, school age?

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6 to 12

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What is the age range of adolescence?

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13 to 18

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What is the age range of emerging adulthood?

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18 to ~25

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What are other terms representing the Nature vs. Nurture theme?

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  • Developmental vs. Learned behavior
  • Emergent skills vs. Acquired skills
  • Maturation vs. learning
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What is maturation?

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Biological development according to a plan contained in the genes

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What is learning?

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A process through which our experiences produce relatively permanent changes in our feelings, thoughts & behaviors.

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What are other developmental themes?

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  • Continuity vs. Discontinuity
  • Normative vs. Idiographic
  • Universal vs. Cultural
  • Active vs. passive
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What is continuity?

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  • Gradual changes
  • Build on skills
  • Learning
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What is discontinuity?

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  • Abrupt changes
  • Qualitatively different
  • Biological changes
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What is normative?

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Development of the “average” child

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What is idiographic?

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Variations seen in individual child

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What is universals of development?

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  • Physical changes associated w/ biology
  • Babbling in native language
  • Happens regardless of culture, race
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What are cultural differences?

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  • Depends on expectations of culture

* Goals of parenting practices (socialization)

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In the renaissance period (1600’s, 1700’s) what were the believes of how children were born?

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  • St. Nicholas
  • Children should not be mistreated, should be treated with warmth & affection
  • Stubborn Child Act of Massachusetts, put to child to death for misbehaving? Said that no child was put to death under this law.
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Medieval Perspective on children?

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  • Largely a christian view
  • Children are born into sin & evil
  • More responsibility, miniature adults
  • Harsh disciplines to get the child to act how the parent desires
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Historical context on child development

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  • Eurocentric History
  • Male perspective, almost no mention of girls
  • Philosophies regarding good & evil
  • Environment or predetermined?
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Ancient Europe (Rome, Greece) view on children & child development?

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  • Put children to death as sacrifice
  • Child looked upon as property of adults
  • Used as wanted/needed
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What is the intention of developmental theories?

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  • To describe, predict & explain changes in behavior over the life span – from conception to death
  • Attempt to organize & summarize existing facts
  • Should allow us to make predictions
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John Locke

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  • Environmentalist
  • 1600’s british philosopher
  • Children are born as a blank slate or TABLA RASA
  • Believed children are born equal
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  • 1700’s, french
  • Believes children are born good, pure & with a conscious
  • Believed children would have good outcomes
  • Parents role to be there & keep them good & pure
  • Nobel Savage
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What are the 3 parts of the personality according to Freud?

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  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
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What is Id?

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  • Pleasure principle

* No contact with reality

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What is ego?

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  • Reality principle
  • According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world.
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What is superego?

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  • Morality, conscience

* Our sense of right from wrong

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What is Freud’s Psychosexual Model?

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  • 0-1: Oral
  • 1-3: Anal
  • 3-6: Phallic
  • 6-12: Latency
  • 12-18: Genital
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What is the oral stage?

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  • 0-2 Yrs
  • Orally fixated
  • Focus on oral pleasure (i.e. breast feeding & putting everything to the mouth)
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What is the Anal stage?

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  • 2-3 yrs
  • Focus on pleasure on the anus
  • Potty training
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What is the Phallic stage?

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  • 3-6 years old
  • family romance
  • focus on pleasure is on the penis/clitoris
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What is the latency stage?

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  • 6-12 yrs
  • Sexual drive goes underground
  • Gives energy to schooling
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What is the genital stage?

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  • 12+ yrs.

* Adult sexuality

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What is Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial theory?

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  • 8 stages from birth to old age
  • 0-1: Basic trust (problems may occur if this stage isn’t established)
  • 1-3: Autonomy vs. Shame & doubt (becoming more independent, separate from adults, similar to adolescence?)
  • 3-4: Initiative vs. guilt
  • 6-12: Industrious vs. Inferiority (master skills or feeling enable)
  • 12-20: Identity vs. Role confusion (establishing identity)
  • Adult: Intimacy vs. Isolation
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What is Lev Vygotsky’s theory on cognitive development?

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  • Emphasized social context
  • Who we are based on culture & context
  • Knowledge acquired through culture
  • Internalization
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What is internalization?

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Incorporating knowledge & thinking through interactions

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What is vygotsky’s info processing model?

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  1. Content
  2. Tools of intellectual adaption
  3. Dialectal Process
  4. Scaffolding (building on skills)
  5. Internalization
  6. Zone of proximal development: learn somethings alone w/ guidance of adults
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John B. Watson

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  • Behaviorist
  • Influenced by John Locke
  • Classical conditioning
  • Study of little Albert (associated all furry things w/ a loud bang)
  • Born w/ a blank slate & that children can be conditioned by manipulating environment
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Reinforcers

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Increases behavior

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Punishers

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Decrease behavior

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Operant conditioning; B.F Skinner

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  • Enviormentalist
  • Reinforcers
  • Punishers
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Social Learning; Albert Bandura

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  • Enviormentalist
  • Observational learning/Modeling
  • Experiment w/ Bobo Dolls
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What is Ethology?

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Looking at human development in the context of studying animal behavior

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What is Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Model?

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  • Microsystem
  • Mesosystem
  • Exosystem
  • Macrosystem
  • Chronosystem
  • Development: unique characteristics of child interact w/ child surroundings
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What is microsystem?

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Direct relationship w/ child (i.e parents, teachers)

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What is mesosystem?

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Interaction btwn. those who have direct relationship w/ child in the microsystem (i.e teacher & parents getting along to collaborate to child’s success)

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What is the exosytem?

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  • Not so direct
  • Ex: Parents boss, school board
  • Parent’s boss has effect on child bc the boss can affect the parents mood
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What is macrosystem?

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  • Attitudes & ideologies of the culture

* ex: court system protecting children, views on male v. female

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What is chronosystem?

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How things might change overtime

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Classical Conditioning

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• Pavlov experiment with the dog, food & salvate

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Piagets Theory

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  • Stage theorist

* cognitive dev.

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Psychoanalytical Theories

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Emphasis on emotional conflict as motivation for change (development)

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Sigmund Freud

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  • Psychoanalyst

* Stage theorist

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Erik Erikson

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  • Psychosocial theory

* Stage theorist

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Cognitive Development Theories

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• Behavior guided by thinking

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Lev Vygotsky

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  • Cognitive Dev

* socio-cultural

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Learning theories (environmental)

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Behavior is acquired through a learning process

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