Lecture 2

Question 1

What is the Kewpie Doll Effect?

Answer 1

How a child’s physical features, such as a lengthened forehead and rounded face, motivate caregivers to care for them.

Question 2

In development, which is more important? Nature or nurture?

Answer 2

Neither. Both play an important role in development. There is no debate as to which is more.

Question 3

Do children actively work to develop or are they passive participants in development?

Answer 3

Both!

Question 4

What are some quantitative features of development?

Answer 4

Reading and math

Question 5

What are some qualitative features of development?

Answer 5

How to share, talk, and move.

Question 6

What is the one debate that still lives on in developmental psych?

Answer 6

The continuity versus discontinuity debate

Question 7

What is continuity?

Answer 7

Are we just smoothly growing bigger?

Question 8

What is discontinuity?

Answer 8

Is development jagged (evolve into different stages-like pokemon??)

Question 9

What are the 7 stages of development?

Answer 9

Infancy, toddlers, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, elderhood.

Question 10

What is infancy?

Answer 10

Birth to first year… depending on when one starts walking and talking.

Question 11

What is a toddler?

Answer 11

About age 2-4, when emotional regulation is a storm. Higher capacity than infant

Question 12

What is childhood?

Answer 12

About age 5 to puberty

Question 13

What is adolescence?

Answer 13

About puberty to the end of high school.

Question 14

What is emerging adulthood?

Answer 14

A blurry stage from about the end of high school to when you truly feel like an adult (18-25ish). You have more money and more mature relationships, but don’t have to worry about the same things a 40 year old does.

Question 15

What is adulthood?

Answer 15

Varies. Sometimes from 21-30

Question 16

What is elderhood?

Answer 16

Can start at retirement or when disability occurs. Varies, because development becomes more diverse as we age.

Question 17

What happens as education becomes more accessible?

Answer 17

We create more stages of development

Question 18

What happened in Canada in the 1950s?

Answer 18

The first generation of teenagers, since high school attendance, became more normative.

Question 19

Is pregnancy a stage?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

What happened to change our mind about children?

Answer 20

The Industrial Revolution. Young children could no longer work, were seen as kids rather than adults.

Question 21

What did Darwin write that helped us understand development?

Answer 21

Baby biographies. He wrote in detail what his son was doing, demonstrating how early development helped a species (his son) adapt to the environment

Question 22

What did G. Stanley Hall do with Darwin’s writing?

Answer 22

Translated it to the psychological community-technically created the first developmental text, looking at chronological differences.

Question 23

What did Alfred Binet do in the field of developmental psychology?

Answer 23

Created the first IQ test. Used to identify those who were the most at risk, so we could develop IQ with maturation and extra resources. Looked more at individual differences.

Question 24

What did Freud do in the field of developmental psychology?

Answer 24

Claimed that early experiences matter

Question 25

What did John B. Watson do in the field of developmental psych?

Answer 25

Believed we could shape things through training in early development. Did not believe emotions existed, did not hug his children.

Question 26

What did Jean Piaget do in the field of developmental psych?

Answer 26

Wrote in detail about the cognitive development of his daugthers.

Question 27

What did Diana Baurmrind do in the field of developmental psych?

Answer 27

Tried to push that parenting was important and that strict and authoritative parents were not helpful (1960).

Question 28

What did Mary Ainsworth do in the field of developmental psych?

Answer 28

Looked at parenting and also the attachment between parents and child/moms and babies. Looked at when babies trusted their parents versus when thewy did not

Question 29

What did Ken Rubin do in the field of developmental psych?

Answer 29

Brought development from familial focus to peer focus and brought attention to social relations in development.

Question 30

What is the society for research in child development?

Answer 30

The main group focused on child development today. Not strictly a psych society; there are also social workers, medical workers. etc.