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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Flashcards

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Human Development

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A scientific study of the systematic process of changes and stability in people.

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Life-Span Development

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From “womb to tomb,” comprising the entire human lifespan from conception to death.

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Goals of Human Development

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Describe, Predict, Explain, and Intervene (DEPI)

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Development is complex

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It involves differing notions, facets, and, disciplines which can be best understood by looking at theoretical perspectives on how one influences or contradicts another.

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Domains of Development

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Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Development

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Physical Development

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Growth of the body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health

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Cognitive Development

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

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Psychosocial Development

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Emotions, personality, and social relationships

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Individual Indifferences

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A study on the individual differences in characteristics, influences, and developmental outcomes.

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Nature (heredity)

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It involves a biological process and consists of inborn traits and characteristics provided by the child’s parents.

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Nurture (environment)

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It involves environmental influences outside the body starting at conception from the prenatal environment inside the womb and continuing through life.

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Maturation

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The natural sequence of unfolding physical and behavioral patterns. Throughout life, maturation influences certain biological processes such as brain development.

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Normative Influences

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

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Normative Age-graded influences

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It is highly similar for people in particular age groups. For example, menstruation for girls aged 12.

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Normative Historical-graded influences

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It is highly experiencing significant events such as war, pandemic, and the great depression that shape the behavior of the historical generation.

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Historical generation

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A group of people experiencing events at a formative time in their lives.

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Cohort

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A group of people born at the same time.

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Non-normative Influences

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Unusual events that have a significant impact on an individual’s life as they disturb the expected life sequence. They are either typical events that happened in an atypical time of life.

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Kondrad Lorenz

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Austrian zoologists found out that newly hatched ducklings instinctively follow the first moving projects they see regardless of whether the same species or not.

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Imprinting

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Automatic and Irreversible. It is also a result of a predisposition toward learning which depicts the readiness of an organism to acquire certain information during a brief critical period in life.

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Critical period

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A specific time when an event, or its absence has an impact on the development

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Plasticity

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A range of modifiable performance

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Sensitive Period

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When a developing person is especially responsive to certain kinds of experiences.

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Principles of Life-Span Developmental Approach

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Development is Lifelong
Development is Multidimensional
Development is Multidirectional
Development shows Plasticity
Development is Contextual
Development is influenced by Cultural and Historical Context
Development involves changing Resource Allocation

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Development is lifelong

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A lifelong process of change. Each period of a lifespan affected by what happened before will also affect what is to come.

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Development is multidimensional

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It occurs along multiple dimensions- biological, psychological, and social.

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Development is multidirectional

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As people gain in one area (expand), they may lose in another (shrink), sometimes at the same time.

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Development shows plasticity

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Plasticity means the capacity for change such as abilities and skills can be improved or modified. Its limitations depend on which influences the development.

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Development is contextual

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Therefore development comprises influences such as school, church, families, peers, and country.

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Development is influenced by Historical and Cultural Context

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Each person is developed by multiple contexts. Biological, cultural, and individual factors work together.

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Development involves changing Resource Allocations

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Resources include money, time, and energy which can be allocated for growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss when recovery is no longer possible.

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