Week 3 Flashcards
What is critical thinking
It is defined as purposeful, self regulatory judgment; an interactive, reflective, reasoning process of making judgment about what to believe or do
What are developmental changes
They are a result of biological, cognitive and sickie motion all processes across the various stages of life
Which theorists focus on psychosocial and analytical theories
Frued
Erickson
Which theorists focus on cognitive theories
Piaget
Vygotsky
Which theorists focuses on moral theories
Kohlberg
Piaget
Which theorist focuses on behavioural theories
Bandura
What is development
The pattern or movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span
What is life span approach
Emphasises developmental change throughout childhood, and old age
What are the three developmental issues
Nature vs nurture
Stability vs change
Continuity vs discontinuity
How many stages of frueds theory are there
5-birth to adulthood
How many stages does Erik sons theory have
8 stages
Explain piagets theory
How we think
How people learn to think and make sense of their world
State and explain the stages/periods of piagets theory
1. Sensorimotor stage Sensory experience with physical actions Birth-2 2. Preoperational stage Represent the world with words and images 2-7 3. Concrete operational stage Reason logically, classify objects into different sets 7-11 4. Formal operational stage Reason with abstract, idealistic and logical ways 11-adulthood
Explain vygotskys theory
Children actively construct their knowledge
Learning is based upon the inventions of society
Emphasises how social interaction and culture guide cognitive development
What are piagets moral developmental theory stages
Heteronomous morality
Autonomous morality
Kohlberg a moral development theory
Found a link between moral development and piagets cognitive development
Explain banduras social cognitive theory
Behaviour, environment and cognitive are key factors in development
Observational learning
What is skinners operant conditioning
Consequences of a behaviour produce changes in the probability of the behaviours occurrence
A reward increases likelihood of behaviour
A punishment decreases likelihood of behaviour
How can age be described/ calculated
Chronological age
Biological age
Psychological age
Social age
