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What is Development?

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Any change in Structure/Function over a period of time

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What is function?

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The action of a structure (E.g. the firing of a neuron)

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What is structure?

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Some piece of the organism- e.g. nervous system, mental knowledge

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Stage of development:
Age 2-6

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Early Childhood

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Stage of development:
Age 11-18

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Adolescence

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Stage of development:
Age 6-11

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Middle childhood

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Stage of development:
Age Birth to 2

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Infancy

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What did Plato believe about children’s development?

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Plato: Human senses are fallible, so people have to be born with innate knowledge that is unlocked over their lives

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What did Aristotle believe about childrenn’s development?

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Children will only learn stuff from experience

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Who said this: Children are born with an inherent sense of right and wrong. Kids are now seen to be little adults. Kids have an innate sense of justice and morality.

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J. J. Rousseau

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As a modern society, who are we most similar to in our view of childhood?
(Ancient times, Medieval times, Puritan New England, Industrial age, etc.)

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Medieval period

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A process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that had already developed

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Continuous development

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A process where new ways of understanding emerge all at once

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Discontinuous development

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What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System theory?

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Views children as the center of a bunch of concentric circles. The child is not raised in isolation. He is influenced by his family, church, culture, etc.

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People who believe in solely nature as the source of a child’s development are called:

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Nativists

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Nativists focus more on ____ (Plasticity or Stability) in child’s brain development

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Stability

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What did Arnold Gesell say about Children’s development?

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-Development is the unfolding of the individual’s natural genetic blueprint
-Everything from speech to motor development reflects a prearranged theory

18
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What are the 4 stages of Development from Piaget?

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Sensimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational

19
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Vgotsky and Bronfenbrenner were..

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Socioculture theorists

20
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Who’s theory was similar to the Indigenous Medicine wheel

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Bronfenbrenner

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Bronfenbrenner: What was the microsystem?

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Family, friends, other close relationships to the kid

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Bronfenbrenner: What is the Mesosystem ?

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The way different Microsysstems impact a kid (e.g. A daycare and friends are different systems that significantly impact a kid)

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What is an Exosystem?

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Larger scale societal influences upon a person, even if it’s second hand (If a parent has a bad day at work, it’ll make her grumpy, making her mean to her kid, meaning that the kid is influenced by the mom.)

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What is the Chronosystem?

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The idea that all systems (Microsystem, Exosystem, etc.) are variable and change over time

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What is Habituation?

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When the subjects of an obersational study get used to the presence of the observer

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What is observer infleunce?

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When subjects act differently depending on if the observer is there or not

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What is sampling Behavior?

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When the researcher creates tasks fot the kid to do to measure the abilities being measured in that study

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Give the possible R-Value:
As X inreases, Y decreases

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R= -0.9

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Give the possible R-Value:
As X decreases, Y decreases

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R= +0.9

30
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Give the possible R-value:
No correlation between the two variables

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R= 0

31
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What is a field experiment?

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Doing a study in a natural setting for the participants (like a park or classroom)

32
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What are some cons of Longitudinal studies?

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Expensive! And some people drop out, (Whichis importnat because there might be somthing special about the people who drop out

33
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Which study is prone to problems due to Cohort Effects?

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Longitudinal

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What is a cross-sectional study?

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Developmental changes are identified by testing kids of different ages at one particular point in their development
E.g. Holding a contest of agility with 3, 8, and 12 year old participants.

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What is the middle ground between Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies?

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Longitudinal-Sequential Studies

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What is a Meta-analysis?

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Allows reserchersto combine the results of a bunch of different studies to estimate relationships between variables

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