Human Growth & Development Flashcards

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What are the 4 categories of human growth and development theories?

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  1. Learning (behavioral)
  2. Cognitive
  3. Psychoanalytic
  4. Humanistic
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At what age do most children show signs of self-recognition?

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By 24 months (2 years) of age

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At what age do children have the ability to describe inner qualities?

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By around 8 years old

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Who is responsible for the theory of “blank slate” or “tabula rasa”?

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John Locke

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What are the 4 principal neurotransmitters in the brain?

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  1. Acetylcholine
  2. Serotonin
  3. Dopamine
  4. GABA (gamma amino butyric acid)
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Acetylcholine is important for

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  1. Memory
  2. Optimal cognitive functioning
  3. Emotional balance and control
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Serotonin:

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  1. Affects feelings, behaving, and thinking
  2. Critical for emotional and cognitive processes
  3. Vital to sleep and anxiety control
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Dopamine:

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  1. Emotional wellness
  2. Motivation
  3. Pleasurable things
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GABA:

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  1. Helps reduce anxiety
  2. Promotes relaxation and sleep
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Who developed the hierarchy of needs?

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Abraham Maslow (humanistic psychologist)

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What are the levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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  1. Food/water to
  2. Security/safety to
  3. Belonging/love to
  4. Self esteem/prestige/status to
  5. Self-actualization
    From physiological needs to social needs to cognitive needs
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Behaviorism (John Watson & B.F. Skinner):

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Learning and behavior changes are the result of rewards and punishments.

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Classic Conditioning (pavlov)

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Food - salivation, bell - salivation

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Types of Operant conditioning

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  1. Positive/negative reinforcement
  2. Positive/negative punishment
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Reinforcement vs Punishment

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Refer to chart

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5 stages of Psychosexual Development (Freud)

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  1. Oral (0-1)
  2. Anal (2 to 3 years)
  3. Phallic (3 to 5 years)
  4. Latency (6 to 12 years)
  5. Genital (12-19 years some say never ends)
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Reaction formation (over compensating) Anna Freud

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expressing a motive or impulse in a way that is
directly opposite what was originally intended.

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Regression:

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retreating to earlier or more primitive (childlike) forms of behavior.

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Introjection:

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the unconscious adoption of the ideas or attitudes of others.

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Sublimation:

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Channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts, or emotions into more socially acceptable behaviors.

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Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development

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Psychoanalytic theory but psychosocial rather than psychosexual

Reference chart

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Jean Piaget (cognitive) argued we inherit two tendencies, what are they?

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Organization: how we systematize and organize mental processes and knowledge.
Adaptation: the adjustment to the environment

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What are the two processes within piaget’s concept of adaptation?

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Assimilation: seeks to relate new information into old schemas

Accommodation: creating new schemes to accommodate new information that may not fit into existing schemas

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What are Jean Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development?

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  1. Sensorimotor
  2. Preoperational
  3. Concrete operational
  4. Formal operational

Refer to chart

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Who came up with the theory of moral development?

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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What are Kohlbergs three levels between self and society?

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  1. Preconventional
  2. Conventional
  3. Postconventional

Reference chart

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Levinson’s three major transitions/times are

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  1. Early adult transition (17 to 22)
  2. Mid-life transition (40 to 45) midlife crisis happens in this stage
  3. Late adult transition (60 to 65)
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Levinson’s 3 sets of developmental tasks in adulthood:

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  1. Build, Modify, Enhance life structure
  2. Form and modify single components of life structure: occupation, love/marriage, relationships
  3. Tasks to become more individuated
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Development occurs in three broad areas. What are they?

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  1. Physical development
  2. Cognitive development
  3. Psychosocial development
30
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Qualitative vs quantitative development

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Qualitative: change in structure or organization (sexual development

Quantitative: change in number, degree, or frequency (intellectual development)

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Continuous vs discontinuous change

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Continuous: changes are sequential and cannot be separated easily ( personality development)

Discontinuous: changes can be separated which argues for stages (language development)

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Mechanistic vs organismic

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Mechanistic: this is the reduction of all behavior to common elements. (Instinctual or reflexive behavior)

Organismic: humanistic approach more than stimulus response. Invoked in use of cognition. Moral or ethical development.

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Who coined the term emotional intelligence?

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Daniel Goldman

34
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Propinquity

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Nearness or proximity. Example: people are most likely to date someone within close proximity to them.