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Focuses on the scientific study of the systematic processes of change and stability in people

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Human Development

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Concept of human development as lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically

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Life-span Development

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Views development as lifelong, multidimensional,multidirectional,plastic,multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss

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Life-span Perspective

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Domains of Development

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  • Physical Development
  • Cognitive Development
  • Psychosocial Development
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growth of the body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health

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Physical Development

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learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity

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Cognitive Development

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emotions, personality, and social relationships

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Psychosocial Development

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a concept or practice that is an invention of a particular culture or society

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Social Construction

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which involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persists through life or change

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Stability-ChangeIssue

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focuses on the degree to which development involves either gradual, cumulative change or distinct stages

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Continuity-Discontinuity

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physical changes; quantitative

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Growth

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transitional state that tells a person is fully functional

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Maturation

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the unfolding of natural sequence of physical change and behavior patterns

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Maturation

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functional changes; progressive

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Development

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it encompasses physical, mental, and social aspects

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Development

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how a person adapts to the environment

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Learning

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scientific study of the extent to which genetic and environmental differences among people and animals are responsible for
differences in their traits

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Behavioral Genetic

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proportion of all the variability in the trait within a large sample of people that can be linked to genetic differences among those individuals

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Heritability

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studied the heredity in plants

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Gregor Mendel

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involves attempting to breed animals for a particular trait to determine whether the
trait is heritable

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Selective Breeding

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Genes contribute to such attributes as activity
level, emotionality, aggressiveness, and sex drive
in rats mice, and chickens

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Selective Breeding

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Research methods in factors of heredity and environment

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  1. Twin Studies
  2. Adoption Studies
  3. Family Studies
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the percentage of pairs of
people studied in which if one member of a pair
displays the trait, the other does too

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Concordance Rate

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wide range of possibility that it might exhibit differently

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Reaction Range

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limited possible changes of changing (fixed) e.g., motor and language development

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Canalized Range

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Genes turn on and off in patterned ways throughout the lifespan

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Epigenetics

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the effects of genes depend on what kind of environment we experiences, and how we respond to the environment depends on what genes we gave

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Gene-Environment Interaction

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Intelligenceisstronglyinfluencedby _______.

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Heredity

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Intelligenceisstronglyinfluencedby heredity. However, it is also affected by ____, _____, ____, ____

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  • parental stimulation
    -education
    -peer influence
    -others
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3 factors that contribute to individual differences in emotionality:

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  1. Genes
  2. Shared Environmental Influences
  3. Non-shared environmental Influences
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common
experiences that work to make them similar (e.g.,
parenting style)

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Shared Environmental Influences

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unique
experiences to the individual – those who are not shared with the other members of the family (e.g., parental favoritism)

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Nonshared Environmental Influences

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3 kinds of Gene-Environment Correlations

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  1. Passive Gene-Environment
  2. Evocative Gene-Environment
  3. Active Gene-Environment
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parent provide for their children is influenced partly by the parents’ genotypes

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Passive Gene-Environment

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child’s genotype evokes certain kind of reactions from other people ; Genetic makeup may affect the reactions of other people to a child and, hence, the kind of social environment that the child will experience

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Evocative Gene-Environment

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children’s genotype
influence the kinds of environment they seek

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Active Gene-Environment

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consists of inborn traits and characteristics provided by the child’s parents

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Heredity

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influences stems from the outside body, starting from conception throughout life

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Environment

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people differ in gender,
height, weight, and body build; in health and energy
level, etc.

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Individual Differences

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consists of inborn traits provided by the
parents

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Heredity

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Nuclear and Extended Family

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Family

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ContextofDevelopment:

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  1. Family
  2. Socioeconomic Status
    3.Culture
    4.Gender
  3. History
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combination of economic
and social factors describing an individual or family,
including income, education, and occupation

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Socioeconomic Status

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society’s or group’s total way of life

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Culture

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overgeneralization that obscures or blurs variations

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Ethnic Gloss

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identifiable biological category, is more accurately defined social construct

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Race

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biological or environmental
events that affect many or most people in a society in a similar ways and events that touch only certain individuals

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Normative Influences

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group of people who experience the event at a formative time in their lives

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Historical Generation

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2 Kinds of Normative Influences

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  1. Normative Age-Graded Influences
  2. Normative History-Graded Influences
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group of people born at about the same time

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Age Cohort

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unusual events that have major impact on individual lives because they disturb the expected sequence of the life cycle

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Nonnormative

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instinctively follow the first moving object they see

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Imprinting

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specific time when a given event, or its absence, has a specific impact on development

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Critical Period

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when developing person is
especially responsive to certain kind of experience

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Sensitive Periods

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modifiability of performance

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Plasticity

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set of logically related concepts or statements that seek to describe and explain development and to predict the kinds of behavior that might occur under certain conditions

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Theory

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explanations or predications that can be tested by further research

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Hypothesis

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Tabula Rasa

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John Locke

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people are like machines that react to environmental input (reactive)

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MechanisticModel

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children are born “noble
savages” who develop according to their own positive natural tendencies if not corrupted by society

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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people as active, growing organisms that set their own development in motion; initiate events, and do not just react (active)

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Organismic Model

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gradual and incremental

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Continuou

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abrupt or uneven

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Discontinuous

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change in number or
amount, such as height, weight, or vocabulary size

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Quantitative Change

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emergence of new phenomena that could not be easily predicted on the basis of the past basic functioning

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Qualitative Change

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emphasized the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and “survival of the fittest” in shaping behavior

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Evolutionary Psychology

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genes

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Nativist Perspective

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environment

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Empiricist Perspective

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all children acquire language in
the same way

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Noam Chomsky

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