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LIFESPAND DEVELOPMENTAL Flashcards

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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

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  • stud of transition that accompanies physical growth or maturation
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Fertilization

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  • occurs in fallopian tube

- zygote goes through 3 stages of gestation

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Germinal stsge

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  • last 2 weeks
  • zygote moves down follopain tube and gros in 64 cells
  • implants itself into wall of the uterus
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Embyronic stage

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  • lasts until 2 month

- organ formation

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Fetal stages

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  • last from 3 months to birth

- quantitative growth occurs during this stage and movement (quickening)

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when does HY antigentcuase testis to form?

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  • 6 weeks
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When does testosteron form?

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  • 3 months
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Neonate

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  • newborn whos behaviour is reflexive
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Reflexes

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1) sucking
2) head turning
3) moro - throw out limbs
4) Babinski - fanning of toes
5) palmar - grabbing something

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Adolescence

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  • from 13-19 years where puberty begins

- Adrenal and pituitary gland secrete estrogen or androgen for secondary sex characteristics

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Nature vs. nurture

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  • use monozygotic and dizygotic twins to explore genetic and environmental influences
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Piaget

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  • cognitive development in child
  • interaction between internal maturation and external epeirnce creates qualitiative changes
  • language development determined by these stages
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Adaptation (piaget)

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  • occurs through assimilation and accomodation (fitting new info into ideas and modifying cognitive schema to incorporate new information)
  • order of steps do not vary
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Sensorimotor (1) - cognitive development

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  • 0-2 years
  • relflexive behaviour
  • circular reactions - manipulate environment
  • object permance - know object exists even when cannot see it
  • representation - visualizing and putting word to objects
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Preoperational (2) - cognitive development

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  • 2- 7 years
  • egocentric understaingin
  • acquire words
  • can’t perform mental operations
  • can’t understand quantity
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Concrete operation (3) - cognitive development

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  • 7-12 years
  • understand concrete realtionships e.g. math
  • conservation - changes in shape doesn’t mean changes in volume
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Formal operations (4) - cognitive development

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  • 12 years

- understand abstract relationships e.g. logic and reasoning

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Gelman

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  • Piaget underestimated cognitive ability ot preschoolers

- can deal with ideas e.g. quanitity in small set of objects

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Moral development

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  • 3 stages by piaget
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Stage 1 moral development

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  • 4-7 years

- imitates rule following behaviour, does not question acceptance

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Stage 2 moral development

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  • 7-11 years

- understand rules and follows them

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Stage 3 moral development

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  • 12+ years
  • applies abstract thinking to rules
  • can change rules if all parties agree
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Freud personality development

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  • driving force for humans was sexual gratification
  • parental over-or underindulgence at particular stage may result in fixation
  • life stressors later in life may result in regression (to earlier stage)
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Regression (frued peronaliy development)

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  • life stressors later in life may results in regression
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Oral (1)

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  • birth - 19 mos

- recieve pleasure orally through sucking, biting etc.

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Anal (2)

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  • 18 mos to 3 years
  • recieves pleasure from self-stimulation of genitals
  • boys develop oedipus complex (jealous of father) and girls develop electra complex (penis envy)
  • boys motivated to suppres lust by castration anxiety
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Latency (3)

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  • adolescence
  • repressed sexuality
  • identify with same sex friends and focus on growing up
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Genital (4)

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  • adolescnce-adulthood
  • hormones awaken and sexual instinct
  • love objects are now nonfamilial
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Kohlberg

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  • moral development by analyzing response in children though 9 hypothetical moral dilemnas
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Heinz dilemna

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  • woman is dying and needs expensive medication

- husband can’t afford medication - should she steal it or let her die?

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Preconventional/premoral (1) kohlberg

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  • “if I steal medicine, I will get in trouble”
    Level 1: should avoid punishment
    Level 2: should gain rewards
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Conventional/morality of conformity (2) kohlberg

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  • “stelaing is against the law”
    Level 2: should gain approval
    Level 3: should follow law and authority
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Postconventional/morality of self-accepted principles (3) kohlberg

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” if its unjust that money is an obstacle to life. it is ethical that I save my wife”
Level 5: beyond black and white of law; attentive to rights and social welfare
Level 6: makes decision based on abstract ethical principles

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Carol Gilligan

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  • Kohlebr’s moral development was biased towards males becuase it dominated by rules, whereas womans morality focuses more on compassion
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Erik Erikson

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  • life span development

- each stage of life has it’s own unique psychosocial conflict to resolve

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Birth-18mos (life span)

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  • trust vs. istrust

- resolution = trust

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18 mos - 3 years (life span)

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  • autonomy vs. shame and doubt

- resoltuion = independnece

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3-6 years (life span)

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  • initiative vs. guilty

- resolution = purpose

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6-puberty (life span)

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  • industry vs. inferiorrity

- resolution = competency

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teen years (life span)

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  • identity vs. role confusion
  • resolution = sense of self
  • gave term to “identity crisis”
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Young adult (life span)

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  • intimacy vs. isolation

- resolution = love

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Middle age (life span)

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  • producitivty vs. stagnation

- resoltuion = producitivty and caring

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Old age (life span)

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  • ego integrity vs. despair

- resolution = wisdom and integrity

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Bowlby

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  • infants are motivated to attach to other for positive reason and for negative ones (avoiding fear)
  • critical during senitive period to prevent character and stability problems
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Ainsworth

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  • studied attachment through strange situation
  • overall children demonstrateed stranger anxity (crying when stranger enterd)
  • children responded differently to mothers who entered the room
  • work carried on by Mary Main
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Securely attached

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  • ran an clung to their mothers

- more readily explore the environment

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Avoidant attached

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  • ignored or avoided their mothers
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Ambivalent attached

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  • infants squirmed or kciekd if their mothers tried to comfort them
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Baumrind

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  • studied relationship between parenting stlyes and personality development
  • authortarian, authoritative and permissive
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Authoritarian

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  • demandng, unaffection

- had children who were withdrawn and unhappy

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Permissive parenting

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  • affectionate, not strict

- had children who were happy but lacking elf-control and self-reliance

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Authoritative parent

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  • affection, firm but fair
  • had chidren who were self-confident, assertive, friendly, happy and high functioning
  • help children understand and accept norms of society and how to function
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John watson’s behavioustic approach to development

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  • chidren were pasively molded by their environment and that behaviour emerges through imiation of their parents
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Internal maturational factors

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  • control motor development for the first 2 years of life
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Interacting with infants through attention and affection

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  • fosters their physical, emotional, IQ development

- neglectd children show mental retardation and morality

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Gesseel

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  • nature provided a blueprint for development through maturation and environment filled in the details
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Children who identify as aggressive in early age:

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  • remain moderatly aggressive at later stages
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Sex-typed beahviour

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  • beahviour that seems sterotypical for gender
  • low at young and older life
  • highest during adolescence
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Boys who reach puberty sooner:

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  • psychologicall and socially advantagous
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Career aspirations of children:

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  • usually similar to their parents
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Hermaphrodie or intersex

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  • both male and female genitals

- most likely result of female fetus beng expose to higher levels of testosterone

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Symbolic play

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  • children 1-2 years pretend roles and use objects to represent things
  • apparent that they understand conceps of having one object stand for the other
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Parallel play

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  • when children 2-3 are standing next to eachother and playing in similar style but by themselves and not interacting with others

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