Unit 1

Question 1

John Locke

Answer 1

Early philosopher of development and coined the term tabula rasa

Question 2

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 2

Early philosopher on development and believed Children are inheritenly good not evil. Also coined variability in education

Question 3

G Stanley hall

Answer 3

Adolescence development

Question 4

Alfred Binet

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First intelligence test

Question 5

Development

Answer 5

Pattern of change that a person undergoes starting at conception until death

Question 6

Developmental psychology

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Studies physical cognitive social and emotional development of humans

Question 7

Tabula Rasa

Answer 7

Proposed by John Locke- everyone is born with a clean slate

Question 8

Lifespan perspective

Answer 8

Changes across the lifespan in areas such as cognitive, social, and emotional development

Question 9

Normative age grade influences

Answer 9

What are you suppose to be doing at your age

Question 10

Normative history grade influences

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People born in the same time period. Cohort: people born the same time in history and these people may have similar views or act similar. Ex: people who grew up in Great Depression

Question 11

Biological processes

Answer 11

Changes that occur in a physical environment

Question 12

Cognitive processes

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Changes in thought, intelligence, and language

Question 13

So unemotional processes

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Changes in interpersonal relations, emotions, and personality

Question 14

Developmental period

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Time frame in a persons life that’s characterized by certain features; most widely classified as 8 developmental periods

Question 15

Prenatal period

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Conception to birth. By the time you’re born you can smell hear taste and are aware

Question 16

Infancy

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Birth to 18-24 months. They are a lot smarter than we think

Question 17

Early childhood

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End of infancy to 5-6 yrs. Logic is developed but centralized and symbolic play

Question 18

Middle and late childhood

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6-11 years of age identified if they have a learning problem and they engage cooperatively

Question 19

Adolescence

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A transition between early adulthood and childhood

Question 20

Early adulthood

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Early 20s to early 30s gain independence a they start to be financially and starting career and family

Question 21

Middle adulthood

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40-60 years. Height of the career what can I do to leave a legacy and what will I do afterward. What can I do to benefit society?

Question 22

Late adulthood

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Begins in 60 or 70s and last til death-life review. Navigating life and was it good or no? Deteration croft overly it physically or both.

Question 23

Chronological age

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Number of years you’ve been on the planet

Question 24

Physiological age

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Individuals adaptive capability compared with other individuals

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Social age

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Social roles and expectations related to a certain group

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Psychoanalytic theories

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Nature v nurture
Stability v change
Continuity v discontinuity
Active v passive

Development is unconscious and by emotion
Symbolism should be used to understand behavior

Question 27

The theory of psychosexual development

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Signing Freud

Question 28

Anna O

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Patient of freuds psychoanalytic theory

Question 29

Conscious v unconscious mind

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Iceberg metaphor and 80%(unconscious) is underwater and development occurs under the surface.

Question 30

ID, ego, superego

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Id- innate and develops at birth obtain pleasurable activities (devil)
Superego- morals and instill a moral of society the good and bad (angel)
Ego- balance of both. “Compromise”