Key Terms- SAC2

Question 1

Social development

Answer 1

Changes in an individual’s relationships with other people, such as the ability to form and maintain close relationships with others

Question 2

Maturation

Answer 2

Orderly and sequential development changes which occur in the nervous system and other bodily structures

Question 3

Longitudinal studies

Answer 3

Tracks the same group of people over an extended period of time, observing changes that occur in behaviour and/or mental processes.

Question 4

Atypical behaviour

Answer 4

Individual acts in ways that are unusual for them

Question 5

Atypical development

Answer 5

Development that differs from what is usual or appropriate

Question 6

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Answer 6

Focuses on how an individual’s thinking affects their behaviour

Question 7

Sensitive period

Answer 7

Period of time when an individual’s development is more responsive to certain types of environmental experiences

Question 8

Critical period

Answer 8

A specific period during which an organisms development is most vulnerable to the absence of certain environmental stimuli or experiences

Question 9

Delusions

Answer 9

Fixed false belief that is held with certainty, even when there is no strong factual evidence that does not support it

Question 10

Adaptive behaviour

Answer 10

Actions that enable a person to effectively carry out their usual everyday tasks

Question 11

Maladaptive behaviour

Answer 11

Behaviour that interferes with the persons ability to carry out their usual activities in an effective way

Question 12

Biopsychosocial model

Answer 12

Way of explaining how biological, psychological and social factors combine to influence an individual’s behaviour and mental processes