WEEK ONE: DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

What is Development?

Answer 1

the way we grow, change, and stay the same. An ongoing cycle that occurred from conception to death

Question 2

What is Cognitive Development?

Answer 2

Maturation of mental processes and tools individuals use to obtain knowledge, think, and problem solve

Question 3

What is Socioemotional Development?

Answer 3

Maturation of social and emotional functioning (personality, perspectives, social skills and interpersonal relationships

Question 4

What is Physical Development?

Answer 4

The body maturation

Question 5

What are the six aspects of development?

Answer 5

lifelong
Multidimensional
Plasticity
Multiple Disciplines
Multidirectional
Context

Question 6

What is lifelong?

Answer 6

occurs across ones entire life

Question 7

What is multidimensional?

Answer 7

involves change in all 3 types of developments. It is not a linear growth

Question 8

What is Plasticity?

Answer 8

intrapersonal variability in the potentials and limits of human development.
Malleable or changeable
Allows people to modify their traits, capacities, and behaviours throughout life
Most plastic in the first few year of our lives
Tends to decrease as we age

Question 9

What is Context?

Answer 9

unique conditions in which a person develops, including aspects of physical and social environment such as family, neighborhood, cultures, and historical time period

Question 10

What is Multiple disciplines

Answer 10

a combination of disciplines is necessary to understand development

Question 11

what is Multidirectional?

Answer 11

onsists of both gains and losses, growth and decline throughout the lifespan
Ex: we are born with a stepping reflex, over the years we gain new motor skills and the stepping reflex disappears

Question 12

what are three types of influence on development?

Answer 12

Normative age-graded influence, normative history-graded influence, nonnormative influence

Question 13

What is the difference between theory and hypothesis?

Answer 13

Theory: an organized set of observation to describe, explain, and predict a phenomenon
Hypothesis: a proposed explanation for the phenomenon that can be tested

Question 14

what is the psychoanalytic theory on development?

Answer 14

unconscious inner drives influence our personalities and behaviors.
A perspective introduced by freud that development and behaviour is stagelike and influenced by inner drives, memories, and conflicts of which an individual is unaware and cannot control

Question 15

What is behaviouralist and social learning theory in development?

Answer 15

environmental impacts development.
Importance of observing behaviour as it is controlled by the physical and social environment through conditioning

Question 16

What is cognitive theory in development?

Answer 16

A perspective posited by piaget that views individuals as active explorers of their world, learning by interacting with the world around them and describes cognitive development as progressing through stages

Question 17

what is Schema?

Answer 17

a mental representation, such as concepts, idea, and ways of interacting with the world

Question 18

What is the sociocultural system theory in development?

Answer 18

impact of society on development.
Vygotsky’s perspective that individuals acquire culturally relevant ways of thinking through social interactions with members of their culture
First theory to emphazie the role of the cultural context in influencing peoples development

Question 19

What is ethology and evolutionary developmental theory in development?

Answer 19

genes and environmental inlfuence

Question 19

What is ethology and evolutionary developmental theory in development?

Answer 19

genes and environmental inlfuence

Question 20

What is the scientific method?

Answer 20

The scientific method is the process of objectively establishing facts by experiments and test. The process contains steps of:
Identify: identify research question and formulate the hypothesis, or proposed explanation, to be tested
Collect: collect information that addresses the research question
Summarize: summarize the information and determine whether the hypothesis was supported
Interpret the information by considering prior research and then sharing the findings

Question 21

What is continuous development?

Answer 21

the view that development consists of gradual cumulative changes in existing skills and capacities

Question 22

What is discontinuous development?

Answer 22

the view that growth enails abrupt transformations in abilities and capacities in which new ways of interacting with the world emerges. the staircase analogy.

Question 23

What is the nature-nurture issue?

Answer 23

a debate within the field of human development regarding whether development is caused by nature (genetic or heredity) or nurture (physical and social environment)