Phy. 1-4

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Lifespan development

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The scientific field covering all of the human lifespan

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Developmentalists

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Researchers and practitioners whose professional interest lies in the study of the human lifespan

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Child development

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Study from birth to adolescence

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Gerontology

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Scientific study of the aging process and older adults

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Normative transitions

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Predictable life changes that occur during development

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Non-normative transitions

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Unpredictable or atypical life changes that occur during development

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Cohort

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The age group with whom we travel through life. Baby boom 1946-1964

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Context of development

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Fundamental markers including cohort, socioeconomic status, culture, gender, shaping development

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Average life expectancy

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A persons fifty-fifty chance at birth of living to a given age

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20th century life expectancy revolution

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Dramatic increase in average life expectancy during first half of twentieth century in developed world

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Maximum lifespan

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Biological limit of human life 105 years

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Young-old

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People in their 60s and 70s

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Old-old

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Ages 80 and up

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Income inequality

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The gap between the rich and poor within a nation.

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Socioeconomic status (SES)

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Basic market referring to status on the educational and especially-income rungs

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Traditional behaviorism

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The original behavioral worldview that focused on charting and modifying only “objective” visible behaviors

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Operant conditioning

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According to the traditional behavioral perspective, the law of learning that determines any voluntary response. We act the way we do because we are reinforced for acting in that way

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Attachment theory

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Formulated by John Bowlby centering on the crucial importance to our species survival of being closely attached to a caregiver and later and significant other

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Cognitive behaviorism

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Social learning theory. Worldview that emphasizes people learn by watching others. Reinforcement determines our behavior. Cognitive theorist chart and modify people’s thoughts

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Self-efficacy

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Cognitive behaviorism- internal belief in our competence that predicts into talking actives, failures and goals

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Evolutionary psychology

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Theory highlighting the role that inborn, species-specific behaviors play in human development and life

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Behavioral genetics

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Field devoted to scientifically determining the role that heredity forces play in determining individual differences in behavior

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Twin study

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Behavioral genetic research strategy, designed to determine the genetic contribution of a given trait

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Adoption study

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Behavioral genetic research strategy designed to find genetic contribution to a given trait. Adoptive children and biological parents

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Twin/adoption study

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Behavioral genetic research compares identical twins in different adoptive families

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Evocative forces

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The nature interacts With nurture principal that our genetic temperamental tendencies and predispositions evoke

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Bidirectionality

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Crucial principal that people affect one another

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Active forces

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Nature interacts with nurture principal that our genetic temperamental tendencies and predispositions cause us to actively choose to put ourselves into specific environments

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epigenetics

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The study of the expression if genes in a stimulated environment. Epigenome

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Eriksons psychological tasks

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Eight stages as we travel through life. Basic trust vs mistrust 1yr. 
Autonomy vs shame and doubt 2yrs
Initiative vs guilt 6 yrs
Industry vs inferiority. Puberty
Identity vs role confusion 20s
Intimacy vs isolation 40s

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Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory

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From infancy to adolescence 4 stages. 
Sensorimotor 2yrs
Preoperation 2-7
Concrete  operations 8-12
Formal operations 12+

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Assimilation

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Jean piagets theory. First step to mental growth. Fitting environmental input into our existing mental capacities

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Accommodation

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Piaget. Enlarging our mental capacities to for input from wider world

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Developmental systems approach

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Bronfenbrenner ecological model. Different forces that shape development

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Correlation study

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A research strategy that involves relating two or more variables

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Representative sample

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A group that reflects the characteristics of the overall population

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Naturalistic observation

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A measurement strategy that involves directly watching and coding behaviors

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Self-report strategy

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Measurement strategy that involves having people report on their feelings and activities through questionnaires

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True experiments

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Only way to find cause. Randomly assigning people to different treatments and then looking at outcome

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Cross-sectional study

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A developmental research strategy that involves testing different age groups at the same time.

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Longitudinal study

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Developmental research strategy that involves testing an age group repeatedly over many years