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13 Cards in this Set
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Human Development |
A process of expanding peoples choices |
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Three Central Themes |
1) Nature and Nuture 2) Universal & Context Specific 3) Continuity and Discontinuity |
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Nature and Nurture |
genes and environment |
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Universal and Specific Context |
between: comparing groups within: similarities between groups |
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Continuity & Discontinuity |
how people stay over time stages how you behave with friends vs. family |
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Life Span Perspective - 4 themes |
1) Multidirectionality 2) Plasticity 3) Historical Context 4) Multiple Causation |
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Multidirectionality |
Growth & decline- growth: going back to school to get degree decline: getting fired at a job |
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Plasticity |
degree as to where we are capable of change but there are limits CANALIZATION: longer we are adopted, the harder it is to change (smoking, drinking, etc) |
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Historical Context |
how you experienced something based on when they occurred |
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Multiple Causation |
link between cause and effect |
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Heirs |
mental shortcut, way of making decision |
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Theory |
coherent set of related concepts that aims to organize, explain, and predict phenomena |
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Quality of Theory |
1) Accuracy 2) Consistency 3) Scope 4) Parsimony 5) Simplicity 6) Fruitfulness |
