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19 Cards in this Set
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Nature
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Characteristics you inherit from your parents
Example- Facial features |
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Nurture
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Things you experience after birth
Example- Language |
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Imprinting
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The brief period after birth or hatching where you can establish a long lasting behavioural response to a specific thing.
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Puberty
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Girls- 9-12 years
Maturing early can result in poor self image Boys 11-14 years Maturing early enahnces self image as well as give them advantages socially and athletically |
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Konrad Lorenz
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Discovered Imprinting. Did an experiment with ducklings
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Orienting Response
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an "inborn" tendancy to notice and respond to novel or surprising events. Eg: hearing your new neighbor's dogs bark insanely loud.
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Developmental Norms
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Approximate ages when an individual is expected to go through certain changes
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Maturation
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he process of learning to cope and react in an emotionally appropriate way
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Attatchment
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Between 6-8 months is when you are expected to attach to your caregiver, allowing you to bond
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What are Piagets 4 stages?
What years do they occur in? Explain what happens in each. |
Sensorimotor Stage- 0-2 years. Construct their understanding of the word by coordinating sensory experiences with motor abilities
Preoperation Stage- 2-7 years. Animism -everything has a conscious, Transformation- understanding that something can change from one state Concrete Operational Stage- 6-12 years. Learn to mentally do things that they previously had to physically do Formal Operational Stage- 11+years. Abstract thinking begins to develop as well as logical |
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Gerentologist
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is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging
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Stages of Lifespan
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Infancy- 0-2years
Childhood- early childhood- 2-6 years - late childhood 6-12 years Adolescence- 12-18 years Early adulthood- 18-40 years Middle age- 40- 60 years Old age- 60+ years |
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DSM-IV_TR
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-4-Text Revise
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3 Areas of Development
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Social-Refers to the development of the person in terms of their personality, emotions, social interactions and expectations.
Eg. Talking Cognitive- Refers to the mental processes of problem solving, perceiving and reasoning Eg. Reading Biological- Refers to the physical changes that occur in the body through growth and maturation. Eg. Growing in height |
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Habituation
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When you are shown an object multiple times and lose interest in it or stop paying attention to it
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Dishabituation
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An infants renewed interest in an object or stimulus
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Language Development
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Closely tied to maturation. By 6 you understand 8000 words and use 4000 of them.
The fist 7 years of your life have been found to be the critical period of language learning |
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Harlow Experiment
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He used Rhesus monkeys to find out whether infants would prefer sustenance or comfort when they got scared,
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Difference between a mental disorder and a mental illness
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Mental Disorder mean a change in how you think or feel that interferes with your ability to get on with your day to day life for example Borderline Personality Disorder. Mental illness is usually inherited and are based on a strong biological basis for example schizophrenia
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