Ch.1 Study Of Human Development

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Human development

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Scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span

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Baby biographies

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Journals kept recording the early development of a child, early forerunners of the scientific study of development.

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Life-span development:

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Concept of development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically.

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Quantitative change:

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Change in number or amount, such as in height, weight, or size of vacab.

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Qualitative change

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Change in kind, structure, or organization, such as the change from nonverbal to verbal communication

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Physical development

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Growth of body and brain and change or stability in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.

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Cognitive development:

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Change or stability in mental abilities, such as learning, memory, language, thinking, moral reasoning, and creativity.

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Psychosocial development:

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Change and stability in emotions, personality, and social relationship

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Normative

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Characteristic of an event that occurs in a similar way for most people in a group.

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Normative age-graded influences

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Event or influence that is highly similar for people in a particular age group. Includes biological (puberty, menopause)and social(marriage)

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Normative history-graded influences

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Event or influence common to a particular cohort

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Cohort

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Group of people growing up at about the same time

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Nonnormative

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Characteristic of an unusual event that happens to a particular person, or a typical event that happens at an unusual time of life.

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Imprinting

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Phenomenon in which newly hatched birds will instinctively follow the first moving object they see,

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Critical period

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Specific time when a given event, or its absence, has the greatest impact on development

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Sensitive periods

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Times in development when a person is particularly open to certain kinds of experiences

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Plasticity

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Modifiability of performance

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Baltes’s Six Principles of the Lifespan Approach:

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Development is lifelong.
Development involves both gain and loss.
o Relative influences of biology and culture shift over the lifespan.
o Development involves a changing allocation of resources.
o Development is modifiable.
o Development is influenced by the historical and cultural context.