Overview Dev Psych Flashcards
It refers to systematic continuities and changes in the individual that occur between conception
and death.
Development
we imply that they are orderly, patterned, and relatively enduring, so that
temporary mood swings and other transitory changes in our appearances, thoughts, and
behaviors are therefore excluded.
Changes
The ways in which we remain the same or continue to
reflect our past.
Developmental Continuities
It is the branch of psychology devoted to identifying and
explaining the continuities and changes that individual display over time.
Developmental Psychology
Any scholar – regardless of discipline – who seeks to understand the
developmental process.
Developmentalist
It is partly responsible
for psychological changes such as our increasing ability to concentrate, solve problems, and
understand another person’s thoughts or feelings.
Maturation
It is the process through which our experiences produce relatively permanent
changes in our feelings, thoughts, and behavior.This means that we change in response to
our environments – particularly in response to actions and reactions of people around us
Learning
3 major goals of developmental sciences
DESCRIBE ,EXPLAIN , OPTIMIZE
human developmentalists carefully observe the behavior of
people of different ages, seeking to catalog how people change over time.
Goal Of Description
It is the developmental changes that characterize most or all
members of a species and this is considered the typical pattern of development.
Normative Development
