Psych part 2 Flashcards
What is developmental psychology?
The study of age-related changes in behaviour and mental processes from conception onward
What are the three developmental psychological issues?
Nature and nuture
Change and stability
Continuity vs stages
What are the beginning things that happen in conceptions?
Conception(fertilization
Fetus(9 weeks)
Danger(alcohol, teratogen)
Learning(sound)
what are the newborn reflexes?
Rooting reflex
Sucking reflex
Crying when hungry
Concerning innate abilities what do newborns prefer?
Faces
Who developed the cognitive scale for children?
Jean Piaget
What are the different type of schemas and explain them
Assimilation
absorbing new information into existing schemas
Accommodation
adjusting old schemas or developing new ones to better fit with new information
What are the 4 stages according to piaget’s theory?
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operational
Formal operation
What’s the sensorimotor stage?
Birth to 2yrs
Explore the world with their senses
Develop object permanence and stranger anxiety during this stage.
What’s the pre-operational stage?
2 to 7yrs
Represent their schemas with words and image
Engage in pretend plays
Before age 6- lack conservation: quality remains the same regardless of quality
What are children’s 2 ways of thinking?
Egocentric and theory of mind
What’s egocentric?
Cannot take another person’s perspective or point of view
A child holds up a picture to show her dad, but she holds it so that she can see it and her dad only sees the back of the paper
What the theory of mind?
The ability to take another’s perspective and to infer others’ mental states.
What’s concrete operational stage?
Children now grasp conservation problems
Children can also transform mathematical functions
4 + 8 = 12 and 12 – 4 = 8
Cannot reason abstractly or hypothetically
What’s formal operational stage?
Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
ability goes to concrete to abstract
Can reason through problems
Recognize hypocrisy
Imagine realities that might exist (what if)
Logic and reasoning are developing
What reflections were made on Piaget’s theory?
Development is a continuous process.
Children express their mental abilities and operations at an earlier age than Piaget thought.
Formal logic is a smaller part of cognition.
What is the origin of attachment? and who was it discovered by?
Harlow (1958)
Monkeys taken away from their mothers
Given two surrogate mothers
Wire mother
Cloth mother
What are the different types of attachments in children?
Secure
Avoidant
Anxious
What’s secure attachment?
secure in nature (what they aim to be) seek contact with mom when
What’s avoidant attachment?
insecure in nature, indifference with leaving and coming back neutral
What’s anxious attachment?
child clinging to mom, loudly upset and remain upset, insecure
Is it true that an attachment patterns we develop as infants carry into our adulthood?
It’s true
What are the 4 different types of parenting styles?
Authoritarian
(Coercive)
Permissive
(Unrestraining)
Negligent
(Uninvolved)
Authoritative
(Confrontive)
What’s authoritarian parenting style?
Parents impose rules “because I said so”
and expect obedience. High control and little warmth
What’s permissive parenting style?
Parents submit to kids’ desires, not enforcing
limits or standards for child behaviour. light level of warmth but low level of control
What’s the negligent parenting style?
Parents are careless, inattentive, and do not seek a close relationship with their children. little to no warmth and control
What’s the authoritative parenting style?
arents enforce rules, limits, and standards
but also explain, discuss, listen, and express
respect for child’s ideas and wishes. high control and warmth
What’s Kohlberg moral development theory?
Wanted to know how people reasoned through moral dilemmas
The answer isn’t as important as the reasoning behind it
What are the 3 levels of moral thinking?
Pre-convential, Conventional and post-conventional
What’s pre-conventional?
Before the age of 9,Self based
Obey rules to avoid punishment or gain a reward
What’s conventional?
Early adolescence, societal perspective
Uphold and rules to again social approval or maintain social order
What’s post-conventional?
High principles, adolescence and beyond
Actions reflect belief in basic right and self defined ethical principles
What’s moral institution?
Gut feeling/emotions
disgust and joy
How many social developments stages are there?
8
What the social development stage of infancy?
(newborn-1yrs)
trust vs mistrust
What the social development stage of toddlerhood? (1-3yrs)
autonomy vs shame and doubt
What the social development stage of preschool? (3-6yrs)
Initiative vs guilt
What the social development stage of elementary school? (6 to puberty)
competency vs inferiority
What the social development stage of adolescence? (teen-20s)
identity vs role confusion
What the social development stage of young adulthood? (20s-40s)
Intimacy vs isolation
What the social development stage of middle adulthood? (40s-60s)
Generativity vs stagnation
What the social development stage of late adulthood? ( late 60s and up)
integrity vs despair
True or false: Recall doesn’t deteriorate but recognition does.
False
True or false: Vocabulary and general knowledge increase with age
true
What are dementia symptoms?
Can’t recall recent and familiar events/objects
Emotional unpredictability
Confusion and disorientation
Neuro-cognitive disorder
What brain changes occur with Alzheimer’s disease?
Loss of brain cells and neural networks
Deterioration of acetylcholine neurons
Plaques at neuron tips
Dramatic shrinking of the brain
What arises first in healthy adulthood according to Erik Erikson?
intimacy issue (a.k.a. affiliation, attachment, connectedness
What arises later in healthy adulthood according to Erik Erikson
generativity issue (achievement, productivity, competence)
What does Sigmund say about healthy adulthood?
the healthy adult must find ways to love and to work
Is knowledge learned?
yes
Who are the 2 psychologist with behavorist?
Watson and skinner
What’s classic conditioning?
Learning by associating two stimuli together
When does learning occur with classic conditioning?
Learning occurs when you recognize that one event predicts another
What’s a part of a natural respnse?
Unconditioned stimulus & Unconditioned Response
What’s a part of no natural response?
Neutral stimulus