PerDev Flashcards
Covers the growth of the body and the brain, motor and sensory skills, and physical health
Physical Development
Covers the capacity to learn, to speak, to understand, to reason, and to create
Cognitive Development
Includes social interaction with other people, our emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs and values
Psychosocial Development
The process in which a person reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves, and learn or unlearn new sets of values
Personal Development
the union of elements: body, thoughts, feelings and sensations that constitute the individuality and identity of a person
Self
constitutes your physical attributes, your health, your posture and poise
Body
the way you think, and how you perceive things around you, how things affect your feelings and bring sensation out of it
Thoughts
these are experiences that prompt you to act or behave the way you do
Emotions and Sensations
a general term used to refer to how someone thinks about, evaluate, or perceives themselves.
Self-concept
________ defines self-concept as “the individual’s belief about himself or herself, including the person’s attributes and who and what the self is”
Baumeister (1999)
how we value or recognize ourselves
Self-esteem
Connects the right and left hemisphere of the brain making the brain process information faster
Corpus Callosum
a part of the brain that is involved in decision making, reasoning, and controlling one’s emotions
Prefrontal Cortex
the part of prefrontal cortex that is involved in establishing positive feelings
Left part
the part of the prefrontal cortex that is involved in establishing negative feelings
Right part
part of the brain that plays a central role in emotion recognition for social interaction and communication
Amygdala
thinking about one’s thinking. refers to the process used to plan, monitor, or assess one’s understanding and performance
Metacognition
should be achieved by the end of adolescence
Emotional Maturity
changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institution
Social Change
