Prelim Flashcards
3 domains of development
•Physical development
•Cognitive development
•Psychosocial development
Emotions, personality, and social relationships
Psychosocial development
Learning attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning and creativity
Cognitive development
Growth of the body and brain, sensory capacity, motor skills and health
Physical development
Branch of psychology focus on how people grow, change over the course of lifetime
Developmental psychology
Early adulthood is not the end of development (not the end point) of the continous process of development
Lifelong
No matter what age you might be, your body, mind, emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other
Multidimensional
Dimensions or components of dimension expands.
Multidirectional
Kakayahang magbago or capacity to change
Plastic
Developmemt can be view through various academic discipline
Multidisciplinary
Occurs within context
Contextual
3 development process
Biological process
Cognitive process
Socioemotional process
Change in physical nature
Biological process
Change in thought, intellegence and language
Cognitive process
Change in relationship with other people, emotions and personality
Socioemotional process
Refers to the time frame of persons life
Developmental period
Conception to birth
Prenatal period
18 to 24 months, extreme dependence upon adults
Infancy
3 to 5 yrs old also known as preschool year
Early childhood
6 to 10/11 yrs old elementary school years
Middle and late childhood
10-12 to 18-21 transition from childhood to adulthood
Adolescence
20s to 30s establishing personal and economic independence
Early adulthood
40s to 50s expanding personal and social involvement and responsibility assisting the next generation in becoming competent and mature individuals
Middle adulthood
60s to 70 till death, longest span on periods of development, time of life review retirement and adjustment to new social roles and diminishing strength and health
Late adulthood
Transitional period between infancy and early adulthood
Toddler
Transition from adolescence to adulthood
Emerging adulthood
4 developmental issues
Nature vs nurture
Maturation
Stability vs change
Continuity vs discontinuity
Starts with the prenatal environment in the womb and continuing throughout life
Nature vs Nurture
Biological inheritance
Nature
Environmental experience
Nurture
Unfolding of natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes
Maturation
Involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or change
Stability Vs Change
Result of heredity and possibly early life experience
Stability
Structures of mind
Id
Ego
Superego
Pleasurable, immediate gratification
ID
Reason, reality principle, protected and preserved by different defense mechanism
EGO
Conscience, socially approved, should and should not, moral, highly demanding
SUPEREGO
The 3 important cognitive theories are
Piaget’s cognitive theory of development
Lev Vygotsky sociocultural cognitive theory
Information - processing theory
This theory states that children go through 4 stages of cognitive development as they construct understanding of the world
Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory
2 process this cognitive construction of the world
Organization and adaptation