Midterm Flashcards

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Lifespan development

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Examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavioral throughout the lifespan

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Physical development

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Body’s physical makeup, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses. And the need for food, drink, and sleep as a determinant of behavior.

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Cognitive development

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Involves the ways that growth and change in learning, memory, problem solving, and intelligence influence a person’s behavior.

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Personality development

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Involves the ways that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over lifespan.

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Social development

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Way in which interactions with others and their social relationships with others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life.

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Social construction

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A shared notion of reality, one that is widely accepted but is a function of society and culture at a given time.

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Developmental diversity on a lifespan.

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Race, ethnicity, SES, gender, religion, age, and ability.

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Continuous vs. discontinuous

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How we learn skills and how they change over the lifespan. Continuous- learn and build off of other skills.
Discontinuous- learning or using skills through steps.

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Theory

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Framework that describes a phenomenon.

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What two theories make up psychodynamic perspectives?

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Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Erikson’s psychical theory

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What three theories make up the behavioral perspective?

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Classical conditioning. Operant conditioning. Social cognitive learning theory.

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What three theories make up the cognitive perspective?

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Piaget.

Information processing theory. Cognitive neuroscience theory.

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What two theories make up the contextual perspective?

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The bio ecological perspective and vygotsky

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Psychodynamic perspective.

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Freud. Unconscious force to act. Behavior motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts.

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Psychosexual development

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Ways in which personality developed during childhood.

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