Quiz 1 Flashcards
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What is a theory?
- set of ideas or organizing principles
- relevant assumptions based on beliefs about a phenomena
- systematically related to each other
Empirical and Operational defintions
- precise can look at it from study to study, operationalized
ex - colic in a baby, 3x a day, 3x a week, 3 by 3 by 3 - fruedian fixation, PMS, terrible twos,
The menstrual stress/Joy Questionare
- people have rxn to menstrual cycle
- menstrual destress question = way to operationalize it
- when we try an operationalize something we can’t let bias sneak in
Development theories allow us to:
Describe - being able to describe what they should be doing in a typical phase
Explain - explain accurately what is happening
Predict - being able to predict and aid , ie predicting learning disabilities
Development is the following domains
Cognitive
Social - humans tend to be fairly social, how we interact
Physical - how the brain changes/bodies change, puberty
ALL interact not independent of one another
Otitus Media
symptoms - snotty nose, eye drainage, cranky, frequent night waking, cranky, unwillingness to lie flat, fever, crying, screaming
Ear infections
- adults have nasal canals which tilt up
- kids get more
- we put drains (tubes)
- omoxycilin
OM issues
- not contagious but respiratory infections are
- OM is more common in daycare situations
- OM is less common in breastfed babies, anitbodies in milk
current concern
antibodies = developing resistance
tubes = relatively uncommon in other countries
Otitus Media and Daycare attending Toddlers
- purpose examine effect of OM on children in three daycare situations
- children (12-18 months) were divided into chromic and non chronic OM
- cildren were given a picture book and reading task,
Results - mothers rated kids with chronic OM as less attentive
- children with chronic OM in low quality daycare setting, attended less and shared more off task behavior on the picture book
Age Graded/History graded (cohort)
- History graded = great depression, on people who grew up on canned food, sexual revolution, more unplanned pregnancyies, post sexual revolution, more sex less unplanned pregnancies
- Age graded = changes that happen at certain ages, going to kindergarten at 5, graduate high school at 18
Non Normative
- we have individual difference, not everyone has a pony, only child, grew up in rural area
Cohort
- people who are born at the same time, studying how kids learn to crawl
Development is … Multidimensional
- during development multiple things are developing but sometimes development declines
- teen buzz only under 25 can hear
- one town put up speakers playing the noise to stop teens from hanging out
Organismic World View
- egg -> caterpillar -> butterfly
- qualitative change (stages/levels)
- active development - actively engaging with the world
- movement towards a goal, point where you are developed
- seen an endpoint
Mechanistic World View
- no qualitative change
- passive reaction
- no movement towards a goal
- can’t meet in the middle because they are worldviews
Contextual World View
- considers perspective between individuals and their physical, cognitive, and social worlds
Ethology
- emphasis on relevance of environmental contexts
- seeks to understand the adoptive or survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history
- important ethological concepts
Imprinting
baby geese, form a bond with first body they see, baby geese imprint on human
Sensitive/Critical Periods
letting babies bond w/parents instead of taken away, those allowed to bond reached more physical milestones faster
Bonding
importance of bonding changed birthing practices
Do humans imprint?
Klaus and Kennel - babies were permitted/not permitted to bond, babies who imprinted, reached milestones more quickly
- species specific responses (laughing/tickling)
- “Babyness” - rounded head shape, large eyes, below middle of head, protruding forehead, Bambi = exaggerated baby cues
The ecological Approach - Bronfenbrenner
- “embedded in the real world
- believed development exists in a series of nested concepts
Microsystem - individuals immediate surroundings, families, friends, coworkers, people you go to church with
Mesosystem - connections among microsystems, parents interacting with teachers
Exosystem - doesn’t directly contain the individual but influences them, teacher snapping at there kids becuase of a bad work day
Macrosystem- values, ideals, customs and laws of a particular culture, in the U.S very scared of birht, highly sexual media
Chronosystem - (temporal/time) - having a sister, 4 years apart, children born during the pandemic
Independent Variable
- variable you manipulate, different TV shows
Dependent Variable
- impacted by changing I.V