Part 1 Flashcards
Exploration of biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes and constancies
Lifespan development
Systematic continues and changes in the individual that occur between conception and death
Development
It implies orderly, patterned, and relatively enduring
Changes
Remain the same or continue to reflect the past
Development continuities
Changes in our social relationship
Social
Changes in our physical body
Biological
Changes in our emotional understanding and experience
Emotional
Changes in our thought processes
Cognitive
2 process of development
Integration and Differentiation
Previously acquired behaviors into new higher level of structures
Integration
Progressive ability to make more distinction among things
Differentiation
Founder of evolutionary theory
Charles Darwin
Research in child development focused on questions such as “What do children know when they go to school”
G Stanley Halls
Studying topics ranging from imitation to intentionality
James Mark Baldwin