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13 Cards in this Set
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nature versus nurture controversy |
whether our development is influenced more by the experiences we have or by the genetic endowment we inherit from our biological parents |
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bula rasa |
a blank slate (describe human mind) |
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stage theories |
discontinuity/ argues that development progresses through a series of stages |
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continuity theories |
suggest that development is best described as a steady growth process |
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Freud and Piaget |
argued development was complete once one reached adolescence |
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Erikson |
support that life span theories of development that growth and change continue to occur throughout the entire life span |
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Piaget |
proposes a universality of cognitive development (universality: all children progress through the same stages of cognitive development in the same order and at the same approximate age) |
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Bronfenbrenner |
argue for context-specific development, which states that sociocultural contexts affect the child's development |
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constructivism |
proposed by Piaget/ argued children construct schema, organized patterns of thought or action, based on the experiences they have actively exploring the environment |
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sensorimotor stage, preoperational, concrete operation, formal operation |
four stages of cognitive development proposed by Piaget |
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sensorimotor stage |
first stage of cognitive development theory/ Age: 0~2 years old |
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preoperational |
second stage of cognitive development theory/ characterized by geocentricism, rigidity of thought, semiological reasoning, and limited social cognition. Age: 2~7 years old |
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concrete operations |
third stage of cognitive development theory/ beginning of operational thinking (can perform transformations, meaning that they can understand reversibility, inversion, reciprocity, and conservation and\ there could be |
