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Change and stability |
Human development |
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Goals of Dev Psych |
Describe Explain Predict Intervene |
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Major Domains of Development |
Physical - growth of body and brain. Sensory capacjty, motor skills, and health Cognitive - memory, reasoning Psychosocial - emotion, personality |
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Coherent and organized |
Development is systematic |
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Development dealing with internal and external conditions of existence |
Adaptive |
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Scientific study of lifelong process |
Life-span development |
Human development vs this |
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A concept that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society |
Social construction |
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Problem with periods as social constructs |
No clear-cut signal or physical landmark to signal a shift from one periof to another |
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Search for identity |
Adolescence |
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Conception to birth |
Prenatal period |
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1 to age 3 |
Infancy and toddlerhood |
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Ages 3 - 6 |
Early childhood |
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When growth is steady |
Early childhood |
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Physical growth is most rapid |
Prenatal period |
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Growth is rapid |
Infancy and toddler |
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Growth is slow; health is better than other periods |
Middle childhood |
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Egocentric |
Early childhood |
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Egocentrism is diminished |
Middle childhood |
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Ages 11 to 20 |
Adolescence |
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Growth is rapid and profound |
Adolescence |
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Age when scientific reasoning is develop |
Adolescence |
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Peak of growth, then declines slightly |
Emerging and Young adulthood |
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Ages 20-40 |
Emerging and Y.A |
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Ages of Middle adulthood |
40-65 |
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Sensory and health slowly deteriorate |
Middle adulthood |
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Peak of mental abilities |
Middle adulthood |
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Noticeable physical event on late adulthood |
Health generally decline |
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Ages of pate adulthood |
65 and over |
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Uniqueness of a person |
Individual differences |
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Differences in chracteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes |
Individual differences |
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Inborn traits |
Heridity |
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Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development |
Environment |
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Unfolding of a natural sequence |
Maturation |
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When do we consider develolment as exceptionallu advanced or delayed |
Deviation from the average is extreme |
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Two-generational kinship |
Nuclear family |
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Multigenerational network of kinship |
Extended family |
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Affluent families have high rates of? |
Substance abuse, anxiety, and depression |
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Conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative developmental outcomes |
Risk factors |
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Total way of life |
Culture |
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People who have distinct way of life |
Ethnic group |
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Why is race considered a social construct rathen than biological/social category |
No scientific definition Poor reliability |
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Erases distinct characteristics of an ethnic group by lumping then in a single category |
Ethnic gloss |
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Characteristics of an event that occurs in a similar way for most people in a group |
Normative influences |
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Group of peple born atvthe same time |
Cohort |
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Group of people influenced by a major historical event |
Historical generation |
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Biological events that affect specific range |
Normative age-group |
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Significant environmental events that have short or long tetm personal and social effects to a group of people |
Normative history-graded influences |
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Events toward a person that disturb the normal sequence of life cycle |
Non-normative influences |
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Predisposition toward learning |
Imprinting |
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Can be disturbed during early development of a specie as Lorenz's did |
Critical period |
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Modifiable of performance |
Plasticity |
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Responsive to certain experiences |
Sensitive periods |
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Baltes' principles of development: |
Lifelong Multidimensional Multidirectional Relative influences of biology and culture Changing resource allocation Plastic Influenced by historical and cultural context |
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