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A set of prejudicial attitudes about older adults, analogous to sexism or racism.
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Ageism
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Defines a sequence of normal life experiences such as the right time to start school, the appropriate time to marry, etc.
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Social clock
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Research done on origin of delinquency
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Gerald Patterson
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A group of individuals who share the same historical experiences at the same time in their lives.
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Cohort
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A research design in which groups of different ages are compared.
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Cross sectional design
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A research design in which people in a single group are studied at different times in their lives.
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Longitudinal Design
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A research design that combines cross sectional and longitudinal examinations of development.
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Sequential design
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A detailed description of a single culture or a single context.
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Ethnography
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The scientific study of age-related changes in behavior, thinking, emotion and personality.
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Developmental psychology
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Claimed that all humans have an innate goodness
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Believed that he and other evolutionists could understand the development of the human species by studying child development.
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Charles Darwin
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proposed stages of personality development
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Freud
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The view that defines development in terms of behavior changes caused by environmental influences. term coined by Watson.
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behaviorism
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performed the 'Little Albert" experiment.
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John Watson
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The debate about the relative contributions of biological process and experiential factors to development.
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Nature vs. nurture controversy
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17th century philosopher proposed that the mind of a child is like a blank slate. The blank slate view proposes that adults can mold children into whatever they want them to be.
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John Locke
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Contributed the following to studying the science of Human Development:
The idea that adolescence is a unique developmental period. The use of objective methods, such as questionnaires and surveys to study children's development. The idea that norms,or averages at which developmental milestones occur, could be used to learn about the evolution of the species as well as the development of individual children. |
G. Stanley Hall
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Refers to the notion that babies are equipped with a set of apparently instinctive behaviors that entice others to care for them.
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Inborn Biases
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What iss this an example of?:
As a little girl, Mary interpreted her parent's and teacher's guidance as criticism, and she developed into a person who , despite her competence and abilities, constantly solicits reassurrance and approval from her friends and work associates. |
Internal models of experience
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Each of us is born with certain vulnerabilities or potential problems that may affect our development.
Each of us is born with certain factors that exert a protective effect such as making us more resilient in the face of stress. Vulnerabilities and protective factors interact with an environment to facilitate or limit a person's developmental outcome. |
Interactionist's model of vulnerability
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Research strategy that identifys relationships, but not causality between two variables.
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Correlational study
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