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10 Cards in this Set
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6 Periods of Development |
Prenatal Infancy Early Childhood Middle Childhood Adolescence Emerging Adulthood |
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Purpose of a Theory? |
Describe, Explain, & Predict behavior -frames of observation for children -give meaning to what we see and why |
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Basic issues in Development |
1) Continuous vs Discontinuous 2)One course of development or many? 3) Nature vs nurture |
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Continuous vs Discontinuous |
Continuous- Gradual process of learning by repeating same task Discontinuous- Apply one thing to many different approaches |
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One course vs Many courses |
1- Does it happen for everyone else the same way? Many- Does it not happen the same way? |
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Context |
Combination of unique persons, environments, etc that result in different changes |
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Info Processing (Neo Piagettian) |
1) Present child with experience/problem 2) Response with action/thought 3)Problem is solved 4) Info is coded, transformed and stored for later use. |
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Critical Period |
Biological time period in which certain behaviors need to be supported/learned |
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Sensitive Period |
Optimal time for certain capacities to emerge. Later development is hard to induce and boundaries are less defined than crit. period. |
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Dynamic Systems Perspecitve |
Everything is going on at the same time and interacts with everything else going on. |
