The Study of Human Development Flashcards
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Human Development
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- focuses on the scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span.
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Life-span Development
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- the concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically.
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Goals of H.D.
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- description, explanation, prediction, intervention
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Disciplines involved
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- psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, biology, genetics, family science, education, history, and medicine.
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Physical Develpment
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- growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.
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Cognitive Development
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- pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
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Psychosocial Development
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- pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships.
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Eight Period of Growth
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- Prenatal Period, Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Emerging and Young Adulthood, Middle Adulthood, Late Adulthood
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Heredity
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- inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.
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Environment
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- totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development.
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Maturation
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- unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.
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Ethnic gloss
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- overgeneralization about an ethnic or cultural group that obscures differences within the group.
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Imprinting
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- instinctive form of learning in which, during a critical period in early development, a young animal forms an attachment to the first moving object it sees, usually the mother.
