Quiz Flashcards
5 theories of development
• Psychoanalytic theories
• Cognitive theories
• Behavioral and Social Cognitive theories
• Ethological theories
• Ecological theories
3 natures of development
• biological
• cognitive
• socioemotional
Produce change in an individual’s physical nature
Biological process
Refers to the changes in the individual’s thought, intellegence, and language
Cognitive process
Involve changes in individuals relationship with other people changes in emotion and changes in personality
Socioemotional process
Explores links between development, cognitive process, and brain
Developmental cognitive neuroscience
Examines connections between socioemotional process, development, and brain
Developmental social neuroscience
Refers to the time frame in a person’s life
Developmental period
9 period sequence
- Prenatal stage
- Infancy
- Toddler
- Early childhood
- Middle and late childhood
- Adolescence
- Early adulthood
- Middle adulthood
- Late adulthood
Begins during the 60s or 70s and last until death
Late adulthood
Approximately 40 to 60 years of age
Middle adulthood
Begins in early 20s and last through 30s
Early adulthood
Transition from adolescence to adulthood has been referred to us
Emerging adulthood
Developmental period from about to 6 to 10 or 11 years of age
Middle and late childhood
Development period from 3 to 5 years of age
Early childhood
Often use to describe a child from about 1 ½ to 3 years of age
Toddler
Developmenta period from birth to 18 or 24 months
Infancy
The time from conception to birth
Prenatal period
Birth to 1 ½ years, infant’s pleasure centers on the mouth
Oral stage
1 ½ to 3 yrs. Child’s pleasure focuses on the anus
Anal stage
3 to 6 yrs, child’s pleasure focuses on the genitals
Phallic Stage
6 yrs to puberty. Child’s represses sexual interest and develops social and intellectual skills
Latency Stage
Puberty onward, a time of sexual reawakening source of sexual pleasure becomes someone outside the family
Genital stage
Recognized Freud’s contribution but believed that Freud misjudged some important dimensions of human development
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory