Unit 1 Flashcards
What are the Big 3 of Dev Psych?
Nature vs Nurture
Stability vs Change
Continuity vs Discontinuity
Piaget’s Theory
Cognitive developmental theory
what are the four stages of PG’s cognitive developmental theory?
Sensory motor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage
Ericson theory
Psychosocial theory, eight stages of psychosocial development
Skinner’s theory
Operant conditioning, behaviorism
Bandura’s theory
Social cognitive theory, holds that behavior environment, and cognitive factors are the key factors and development
Ethology
Study of the behavior of animals in their natural habitat
Critical period
A time when a particular type of developmental growth ( in body or behavior ) must happen if it is ever gonna happen
sensitive period
Sometimes development occurs more easily, but not exclusively at a certain time,
human genome
Complete set of developmental instructions for creating proteins that initiate the making of a human organism
germinal period
Take place in the first two weeks after ovulation, includes the creation of fertilized, egg, cell division, and multiple cellular organism attachment to uterine wall
embryonic period
Occurs after 2 to 8 weeks after ovulation, rate of cell differentiation intensifies, support system for cell form, organs appear
fetal period
Extends from two months after ovulation until birth, last about seven months, growth and development continue their dramatic course
age of viability
21 weeks
differences between growth and development
Barring disruptions to growth, a child stays on their centile throughout growth, researchers called this canalization
