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Human Development |
The multidisciplinary study of how people change/stay the same over time |
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Nature |
Are personal characteristics inherited |
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Nurture |
Brought about by the environment |
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Continuity-discontinuity issue |
Do personal characteristics remain the same, or prrogress smoothly or are they abrupt shifts |
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Universal vs. context specific issue |
Is there just one developmental path or several? |
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Biopsychosocial framework |
Interaction of these forces (everyone is unique) |
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Neuroscience |
The study of the brain and nervous system |
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Psychodynamic Theory |
Development is determined by how well people resolve conflicts faced at different ages |
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Learning Theory |
How does learning influence a certain behavior |
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Cognitive Developmental Theory |
How people think and how thinking changes over time |
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Information processing theory |
Human cognition consists of mental hardware and mental software |
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Vygotsky theory |
Every aspect of a childs development must be considered against the backdrop of culture |
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Ecological and Systems Perspective |
Development is inseparable from the environment in which a person develops |
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Lifelong Development Persepctive |
Can you understand a person without knowledge of his or her life experiences |
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Naturalistiic Observations |
Observing a person in a real life situation |
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Structured Observations |
Creating a setting to bring out the behavior of interest |
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Self Reports |
Peoples answers to questions about the topic of interest |
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Reliability |
Extent to which a measure provides a consistent index of a characteristic |
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Validity |
The extent to which a measure assesses what that researcher thinks it is assessing |
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Correlational studies |
relationships between variables that exist naturrally in the world |
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Experimental studies |
systematic ways of manipulting the independent variablees in order to cause a particular behavior |
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Qualitative research |
allows the researcher to gain an in depth underrstanding of human behavior and what governs it |
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Longitudinal Studies |
Same individuals are tested throughout their lives |
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Cross sectional studies |
tests people of different ages at the same time |
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Sequential studies |
a complex design that combines both cross sectional and longitudinal methods |
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Piagets Theory |
Children create theories about the world and test them out through experience |
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Bronfenbrenners Theory |
People are embedded into four levels of the environemt |
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Competence environmental press theory |
a good match between competence and environment press is best for development |
