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21 Cards in this Set
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what does nature and nurture refer to?
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the balance between biological and evironmental influences in development
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Descartes?
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mind/body, came up with innate: mind brings knowledge from before it was paire with the body
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Locke?
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tabula rosa- mind is a blank slate
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Rousseau?
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humans are good until corrupted from society
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Darwin
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evolution and natural selection
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psychodynamic theory?
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events early in life will have an impact on later development
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structural organismic?
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characterized by the limitations in childrens thinking
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learning theories?
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based on lockes idea of tabula rosa, all development is driven by experience and evironment
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dynamics system?
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development is driven by the constant interactions of mutual elements within the system
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contextual theory?
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development is impacted by experiences and relationships that are layered of environmental systems
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ethological approaches?
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bowlbys theory of attachment
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what is correlation?
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method of research, testing the relationship between 2 variables
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performation vs. epigenesist?
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epigenesist is new structures emerge during development but performation is that life beginds with the individual already performed
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when does life begin and why?
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before birth when the fetus can hear, smell, taste, move, learn
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what is brain plasticity?
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brain is malleable but becomes less so with age and development
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when is it more difficult to overcome brain damage?
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as an adult
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experience expected vs. experience-dependent?
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EE believes that everyone gets in a typical environment. the lack of this type of experience could lead to deviations in typical
experience-dependent experience goes beyond typical dev. to enhance areas of brain for special function |
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what is habituation?
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decreased response to stimuli after repeated exposure
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what are critical periods?
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period of heightened sensitivity and vulnerability.
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Evidence for critical periods?
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teratogens are more damaging in embryo stage, complexity of grammar added to new language by younder kids is easier, brain damage more critical later in life
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what is the simplest form of learning?
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habituation
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