intro to Human development Flashcards
Periods of human development
Prenatal
infancy and childhood
early childhood
middle childhood
adolescence
early adulthood
middle adulthood
death
what is culture
what we eat
how we speak/feel/act/ in certain situations
values and attitudes
award vs. punished behaviors
important life exercise/milestones for individual/community
-these will change across cultures
culture is learned from
parents and extended family
school and houses of worship
friends and communities
different forms of media
culture influences
will impact development
everyone will view course material through their own cultural lens
intra-individual
how and why change over time
how they remain the same
inter-individual
how and why people are unique from each other
how they are the same
every person comes pre-packaged but not pre-assembled
developmental themes: nature vs. nurture
heredity vs. environment
developmental themes: continuous vs. discontinuous
gradual(slow and steady) vs. abrupt (dramatic changes)
developmental themes: universal vs. context-specific
experienced by all vs. experienced by some
theory
explanation organizes separate ideas in a coherent way
developmental theories
explanation organizes separate ideas for what infuses development
influences human development
developmental theories: psychoanalytic
unconscious motives and expires in early childhood
legacy of childhood
founded by Sigmund Freud and Erik Ericson
developmental theories: behaviorism
environmental effects such as reinforcement and punishment on behavior
learning theory
founded by Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, Albert Bandura
developmental theories: cognitive
beliefs, attitudes, and cognitive understanding
information processing
Jean Piget
developmental theories: sociocultural
the dynamic interaction between the person and their surrounding society
