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Stedman's Theory
Evolution...

-genetic mutation
-smaller jaw muscle
-less pressure on skull platelets
-our brains had more room to grow
Psychometric Theories of intelligence
Spearman
-1904
g=general
Thurstone & Thurstone
7 distinct abilities
1941
Carroll
1993
Hierachial theory
-smart in one usually good in others
Information processing Approach
Gardners multiple intelligence
-child development
-brain damage patients
-savants
Gifted children
IQ of 130+
Mental Retardation
IQ of 70-
Lange: Triple response model
Anxiety into 3 parts
-cognitive: Fear related thoughts
-Motor: Fight or flight response
-Physiological: Things your body does you can't control
Cognitive model: Two factor
Mowers theory:
fears are developed trough classical conditioning
--Operant conditioning: maintained fears
Stanley Rachman
Fears can be gained by social learning
Information transmitting
People telling you what to be afraid of
Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD)
War victims, child abuse
SUDS
Subjective units of distress
Sound Production
Cooing: 2 months
Babbling: 5-6 months
intonation: 8-11 months
Age 1
First word
gestures begin
Age 2
few hundred words
9 new words a day
Grammar Development
one word phrases (1-2 years)
Two word phrases (2 years)
three words (2-3 years)
-order: sub, verb, object
Behavioral Theory
Children sound like parents
Opperant conditioning
saying "eat" is reinforced
incorrect grammar is puished
Social Interaction Theory
-Infant directed speech
-Turn-taking
-Reading (start @ 6 months)
Linguistic Theory
Language = function of brain development
Current PDD's
-Autism
-Aspergers Disorder
-Rett's Disorder
-Childhood dis integrative disorder
-PDD- not specified
Autism
-Impaired social interaction
-Repetitive behaviors
-impaired communication
Asperger's
-Impaired social interaction
-Repetitive behavior
Applied Behavior Analysis
1 on 1 training
Repeat skills
Prompt & Fade
Reinforce often
Promoting generalization
up to 40 hours a week
involve family
Basic emotions in newborns
Distress
Pleasure
Joy
Emerges at 2-3 months old
-social smile
laugh to simulation(4 months)
laugh at event(1 year)
make you laugh(2-3)
Sadness
Emerges at 2-3 months old
loss of reinforcement
Imitation (sad parent)
Clinical Depression
Major depression disorder
-intense depression or irritability
- at least 2 weeks
Dysthymic Disorder
Depressed or irritable
most of the time
at least one year
Depression etiology
Genetics=hormones

Behavioral theory-lack of social skills
-learned helplessness (giving up)
-Parent modeling

Cognitive theory
-cognitive distortions
-cognitive modeling
Anger
Emerges 4-6 months
something taken away
block from getting something
Fear
4-6 months
Complex emotions
18-24 months
embarrassment, pride, guilt
Understanding others emotions
6 mo- match emotions of parents
12 mo- social referencing (immediate)
14 mo- social referencing
5 years- understand why people feel the way they do
8 years- understand mixed emotions
Temperament
Biologically based behavior styles
Psychrometricians
Psychologists who study intelligence and personality
Savants
People with mental retardation, that have telents
Emotional intelligence
Ability to use yours and others emotions to solve problems
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100
Dynamic testing
How well a child learns something while being observed
Culture fair intelligence test
Test items based on experiences common to many cultures
ex: Different cultures don't all understand the same
Gifted
130 or better on intelligence test
Convergent thinking
Using information that is provided to get an answer
Divergent thinking
not one specific answer
ex:name uses of a coat hanger
Mental retardation
below 18

70-0
Phonology
refers to sound of language
Semantics
the study of words and their meaning
grammar
rules used to describe the structure of language
Syntax
How words are grouped to form sentences
Pragmatics
how people use language to communicate effectively
Phonemes
unique sounds that can be joined to create words
infant-directed speech
adults speak slowly and change there tones
Intonation
Pattern of rising or falling pitch
Naming explosion
18 months, learn a lot of new words, mostly objects
Fast mapping
Ability to connect new words to meanings
Underextention
Defining a word to narrowly
over extension
defining a word to broadly
ex: all four legged animals=doggie
Phonological memory
the ability to remember speech sounds breifly
Referential style
Vocab consists of objects, persons, or actions
Expressive style
some names, single word phrases
ex- go away
Telegraphic speech
Words directly relevant to meaning
ex-mommy go, gimme cookie
Grammatical morphemes
Word endings that make a sentence grammatical.
ex: kick ball
I am going to kick the ball
Over regulation
applying rules to the exceptions of the rule
ex-adding an s to man "mans"
Semantic bootstrapping theory
children know nouns refer to people or places and verbs are actions
Basic emotions
subjective feeling, physical feeling and overt behavior
ex-wake up found your roommate left with your umbrella.
subjectively you feel like you're going to blow up with anger, your heart rate would go faster and you would act crabby
Social smile
2-3 months infants smile when they see someone else do so
stranger wariness
6 month old looks away and fuses
Self-conscious emotions
feelings of success when one's standards or expectations are met and feelings of failure are not

complex emotions
social referring
looking to the parents to figure out how to act
Display rules
settings
ex: children know it's okay to cry around close family but not strangers
Secure attachment
When mom comes back, baby wants her first
Avoidance attachment
Not upset when mother leaves, and not excited to see her
Resistant attachment
Baby upset when mother leaves and still when she returns.
Hard to control.
Disorganized attachment
Confused when the mother leaves and returns.
Doesn't really understand
Internal working model
Babies learn to trust parent to maintain their needs.
Secure adults
valued childhood
Dismissive adults
didn't like their childhood but look up to their parents
Preoccupied
Bad childhood and didn't get along with parents
self concept
The attitudes, behaviors, and values that make a person unique
Adolescent ego centrism
self-absorption that makes the teenage search for identity
Imaginary audience
Teens believe everyone is always watching them
Personal fable
Teens believe there experiences and events are unique and haven't happened to anyone else
Illusion of invulnerability
Believe Misfortune only happens to others
Diffusion
Overwhelmed by achieving an identity and are doing little to achieve one
Foreclosure
Adults choose your identity instead of you
Moratorium
Still trying different options, yet to find one that fits themselves
Achievement
Have chosen a specific identity
Crystallization
Use identities as a source of ideas for careers
Specification
Picking a career path and working towards it
Implementation
Enter the work force and learn first hand about their jobs
Attributions
personal explanations of success and failure
Recursive thinking
"He thinks, that she thinks"
Prejudice
A negative view of others based on their membership in a specific group