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What is Developmental Psychology?
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Age related changes in behavior and mental processes
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What is Cognition?
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All mental activities associated with remembering, thinking, and communicating
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What are the 3 major issues for Developmental Psychologists?
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1. Nature vs. Nurture
2. Continuity/Stages 3. Stablility/Change |
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Why is Nature vs. Nurture an issue?
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How do our genetic inheritance (our nature) and experiences (nurture we receive) influence our development?
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What is Continuity/Stages as an issue?
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Is development a gradual, continuous process, or does it proceed through a sequence of different stages.
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What is Stability/Change as an issue?
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Do our early personality traits stay the same throughout life, or do they change as we age?
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What did John Locke believe?
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He believed that everything we know, our personalities, etc. are born with us.
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What is the name of a group that also believe that everything we know, our personality, etc. is born with us?
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Behaviorists
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Describe the first stage of Jean Piagets 4 stages of development-
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occurs between ages birth to 2 years; Stage is called Sensorimotor which is when they experience the world through sensations
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Describe the second stage of Jean Piagets 4 stages of development-
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occurs between ages 2 to 6 years; Stage is called Preoperational- represent things with words and images but lack logical reasoning
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Describe the third stage of Jean Peagets 4 stages of development-
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occurs between ages 7 to 11 years; Stage is called Concrete Operational which is thinking logically about concrete events, can do arithmetical operations
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Describe the fourth stage of Jean Piagets 4 stages of development-
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occurs between ages 12 to adulthood; Stage is called Formal Operational which is abstract reasoning
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What is the definition of Temperament?
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you are born with it; a person's emotional reactivity and intensity
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Describe what a Zygote is-
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prenatal development; conception to 2 weeks, fertilized eggs
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Describe what an Embryo is-
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prenatal development; 2 to 8 weeks, most sensitive time because all organs, except for sex organs, develop at this time
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Describe what the Fetus is-
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prenatal development; 9 weeks to birth
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What is Schema?
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concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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What is Assimilation?
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interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas
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What is Accommodation?
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adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information
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What is Egocentrism?
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children can only see or understand things from their point of view
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What is Conservation?
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change the shape of a container with liquid in it, a child can conserve the correct volume of the liquid
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What is Separaion Anxiety?
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When a mother leaves and a child cries
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What is Stranger Anxiety?
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when children are scared or frightened by seeing people they do not know
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