Lifespan Development Flashcards
Studies how you change as well as how you remain the same over the course of your life.
Lifespan development
3 domains of development
Physical
Cognitive
Psychosocial
Continuous development
views development as a cumulative process, gradually improving on existing skills. With this type of development, there is gradual change.
I.e. a child’s physical growth: adding inches to height year by year.
___________ believe that development takes place in unique stages: It occurs at specific times or ages.
With this type of development, the change is more sudden.
I.e. such as an infant’s ability to conceive object permanence.
Discontinuous
All external conditions that affect a person
Environment (Nurture)
Genetic transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parents to their children (eg. DNA)
Heredity (nature)
Lack of normal stimulation, nutrition, comfort, or love
Deprivation
When an environment is deliberately made more complex and intellectually stimulating and emotionally supportive
Enrichment
Name 4 of Newborn’s reflexes
Grasping reflex, rooting reflex, sucking reflex & Moro (startle) reflex
Close emotional bond that infants form with parents, caregivers, or others
Emotional attachment
The main psychosocial milestone of infancy
Attachment
Crying and signs of fear when a child is left alone or is with a stranger; generally appear around 8-12 months
Separation anxiety
Severe and prolonged distress displayed by children when separated from parents/caregivers.
Separation anxiety disorder
Name the founder.
Wanted to know if children differ in the way they bond, and if so, why.
Used the “Strange Situation Procedure” to study attachment between mothers and their infants.
Mary Ainsworth
Behave oddly, freeze, run around the room in an erratic manner, or run away when the caregiver returns.
Seen in abused kids
Disorganized attachment
Stable and positive emotional bond. The child is calm when the parent returns.
Secure
Anxious emotional bond; desire to be with parent or caregiver and some resistance to being reunited with mother.
Insecure-ambivalent
Anxious emotional bond; does not use the parent as a secure base, tendency to avoid reunion with parent or caregiver.
Insecure-avoidant
Primary psychosocial milestone of childhood
Self concept
Name the parenting style:
- Rigid rules
- Demand strict obedience to authority
- Children -emotionally stiff and lacking in curiosity
Authoritarian parents
Name the parenting style:
Little guidance
Too much freedom
No accountability
Children-dependent, immature, and frequently misbehave
Overly permissive
Name the parenting style:
Firm and consistent guidance
Combined with love and affection
Children- competent, self-controlled, independent, & assertive(bold)
Authoritative
________dilemma: Conflict between personal impulses and the social world.
Psychosocial
_____development: When we acquire values, beliefs, and thinking abilities that guide responsible behavior.
Moral
