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Developmental Psychology - Test 1 - Ch. 1 & 2

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The fact that development often involves continuities speaks to the fact that over time humans tend to

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remain the same

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Albert, a developmental psychologist, conducts research on children's emotional reactions to studying math in school. Albert is concerned with children's ____ development.

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psychosocial

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Key aspects of motor development:

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- change in motor ability
- change in body organ efficiency
- change in skin tone

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A defined age group in a society is called an age

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grade.

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Maturation is to learning as

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genes are to social experience.

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Urie Bronfenbrenner is BEST associated with the ____ model of development.

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Bioecological.

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The PRIMARY advantage of the experimental design over other research methods is that only it can be used to

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uncover cause-effect relationships.

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John Locke believed that human nature was

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determined by a person's experiences

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Learning thought to become more or less probable depending on consequences it produces (Skinner)

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operant conditioning

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Consequences that strengthen a response (increase probability of future response) (Skinner)

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Reinforcement

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something pleasant added in attempt to strengthen behavior, best when continuous and when skill first being learned (Skinner)

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Positive Reinforcement

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something unpleasant taken in attempt to strengthen behavior

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Negative reinforcement

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consequences that suppress future response

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punishment

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something unpleasant added in attempt to weaken behavior

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positive punishment

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something pleasant taken in attempt to weaken behavior

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negative punishment

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no consequence given and behavior becomes less frequent

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extinction

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emphasized positive reinforcement in child rearing

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Skinner

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Involves systematic continuities and changes from conception to death

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Development

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Three domains of development:

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- physical
- cognitive
- social

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changes in size and shape from conception to maturity

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growth

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positive and negative changes in maturing organism

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aging

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biological unfolding of plan contained in genes

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maturation (nature)

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external physical and social conditions

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environment (nurture)

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______ is an interplay between nature and nurture

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Development

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Periods of the lifespan:

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- prenatal (birth), infancy (talking)
- childhood (preschool/ middle)
- adolescence (early, middle, late)
- adulthood (early, middle, late)

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status, roles, privileges, and responsibilities based on age group

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age grades

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expectations based on age grades

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age norms

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sense of timing for life transitions

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social clock

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Considered founder of Psychology, had first laboratory in 1879

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Wrote "Elemente der Psychophysik (1860), "stimuli give rise to perceptions according to mathematical laws" Weber-______ Law.

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Gustav Fechner

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Started baby biographies, observed his own children, not systematic observations, late 19th century

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Charles Darwin

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Began very systematic observations, started the case study method, 1920's

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Jean Piaget

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First president of American Psychological Association

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G. Stanley Hall

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Types of Research Methods:

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- Systematic Observation
- Measurement
- Theory vs. Hypothesis
- Operationalization
- Falsification

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Three major methods of data collection:

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- Verbal reports
- Behavioral observations
*Naturalistic
*Structured
- Physiological

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_________ is the search for the relationship between variables

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Research

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Characteristics of Experimental Studies:

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- establish that the IV is the cause of the DV
- causal explanations require experimentation and internal validity
- eliminate threats

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Characteristics of Correlational Designs:

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- does not imply causation
- patterns of correlation CAN imply causation

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_________ study different age groups measured at the same time. provides information about age differences.

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cross-sectional designs

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_________ studies same group measured repeatedly, provides information on age changes.

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Longitudinal Design

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Cross Sectional Design, Strengths and Weaknesses:

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- can determine cohort differences in behavior
- age effects and cohort effects are confounded
- relatively quick and inexpensive to conduct
- no information about development of individuals

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Longitudinal Design, Strengths and Weaknesses:

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- can indicate individual changes in behavior
- can show relationships between early and later behavior
- centers on only one cohort group
- age effects and time of measurement effects are confounded
- method is costly and time-consuming
- measures may become dated
- loss of participants
- participants can be affected by repeated testing

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combine cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches, can untangle age effects, time of measurement effects, and cohort effects, method is extremely costly and complex

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sequentail design

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Qualities of a good theory:

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- reflects the real world of humans
- supported by empirical evidence
- explain past results and makes predictions about future outcomes
- can handle new data and discoveries
- stimulate new research ideas and directions
- understandable, parsimonious, and internally consistent
- falsifiable

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Six major theories of development:

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- Psychoanalytic: Freud, Erikson
- Learning: Skinner, Bandura
- Cognitive Developmental: Piaget, Vygotski
- Ethological: Lorenz, Gottileb
- Social Attachment: Bowlby, Ainsworth
- Systems Theories: Werner, Brofenbrenner

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prevailing way of looking at reality - bias about human nature

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world view

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English academic/ philosopher, children are selfish and bad, and society must teach them to behave in a civilized way

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

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English academic/ philosopher/ doctor/ empiricist - everything through the senses, tabula rosa, children born neutral - become what we make them

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John Locke (1632-1714)

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________ World View: Passive and react to stimuli, form a copy of reality based on experience - learning is reacting and trying to copy, reductionisit - fix/ break apart, focus on individual differences

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Mechanistic

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Swiss philosopher, natural state of humans is good, inborn capabilities lead to optimal developemental path, society (parents, educators, religious leaders, government) get in the way. children are little organisms, ready to flourish.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

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________ World View: humans not passive nor reactive but active organisms, self motivated to grow and develop - seek change, reality is not copied, but constructed, not reductionist - but holistic - whole greater than sum of parts.

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Organismic

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Viennese Physician and founder of Psychoanalytic theory. considered both a product of and a person beyond his time. Lasting contributions: emphasis on humans being driven by motive and emotions of which we are unaware, belief that we are shaped by earliest experiences in life.

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Sigmund Freud

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Libido expressed through two main channels:
-__________ - survival, sexual pleasure and reproduction.
-__________ - static equilibrium, resulting in death, postulated this after seeing so much self- and other destruction.

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Eros & Thanatos

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Behavior and Development (Freud) - _________ model

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drive reduction

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__________ - energy - ___________

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libido, drive

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Components of Personality:

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id, ego, superego

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all psychic energy contained here, seeks immediate gratification (pleasure principle)

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Id

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realistic ways to gratify instincts (reality principle)

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Ego

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adhere to moral standards (perfection principle)

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Superego

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Stages of Psychosexual Development (Freud):

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Oral, Anal, Phallic Stage, Latency Period, Genital Stage.

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Psychic energy needs gratification

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oral stage

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Oedipus and Electra stages begin to form

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Anal stage

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Oedipus and Electra complexes resolve

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Phallic Stage

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Development can become _________.

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Fixated

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Psychoanalytic Theory:

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- Difficult to test and ambiguous (not easily falsifiable.
- Weak support for specific aspects of the theory
- Greater but limited empirical support for broad ideas
*unconscious processes underlying behavior
*importance of early experience and role of emotion in development

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Important disciples of Psychoanalytic Theory

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Neo-Freudians

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Notable Neo-Freudians

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Jung, Horney, Sullivan, Anna Freud

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_________ is the most important lifespan neo-Freudian theorist

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Erikson

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- Less empahasis on sexual and more on social influences
- Less emphasis on irrational id, more on rational ego
- More emphasis on development after adolescence

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Erikson's differences with Freud

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- Trust vs. Mistrust
- Autonomy vs. Shame
- Initiative vs. Guilt
- Industry vs. Inferiority

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Erikson Stages (Part One)

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key is general responsiveness of caregiver

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Trust vs. Mistrust

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"terrible twos" considered part of this stage

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Autonomy vs. Shame

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- Identity vs. Role Confusion
- Intimacy vs. Isolation
- Generativity vs. Stagnation
- Integrity vs. Despair

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Erikson Stages (Part Two)

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adolescence acquisition of identity

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Identity vs. Role Confusion

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Young adult commitment

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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middle age sense of having produced something meaningful

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Generativity vs. Stagnation

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elderly sense of life meaning and success

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Integrity vs. Despair

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_________ believed that personality was NOT "set in stone" during the first five years of life.

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Erikson

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_________ believed stage development was due to biological maturation and environmental demands.

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Eriskon

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Founder of the Cognitive Developmental Theory. Swiss Scholar. First scientific work at age 10. blended interest in zoology and philosophy - influenced by Charles Darwin. Emphasizes errors in thinking (wrong answers). Work was unknown in the US until writings were translated to English by John Flavell

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Jean Piaget

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active construction of knowledge based on experience.

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constructivism

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- Everything we see, hear is filtered through our "frame of reference". We construct our knowledge out of what we already know.
- drive for cognitive equilibrium

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Mechanisms of Development

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basic unit of stored knowledge

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scheme/ schemata

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processing and adding new things using our current schemes - what we know.

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Assimilation

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Sensorimotor Stage, Preoperational Stage, Concrete Operations Stage, Formal Operations Stage.

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Stages of Cognitive Development

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ranges from birth to age two. deal with world directly through perceptions and actions. unable to use symbols to help solve problems mentally.

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Sensorimotor Stage

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preschool age. capacity for symbolic thought arises. lack tools of logical thought. cling to ideas they want to be true.

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Preoperational Stage

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school-age. use trial-and-error strategy. perform mental operations in their heads. difficulty with abstract and hypothetical concepts.

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Concrete Operations Stage

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adolescents. can understand abstract concepts. can think abstractly and can formulate hypotheses. can devise "grand theories" about others.

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Formal Operations Stage

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Formed the Cognitive Mediation Theory. Born the same year as Piaget. Russian Psychologist who took issue with Piaget. very well read and educated in western philosophy. attended moscow university. his work was banned in Russia and completely unavailable to the west until the early 1970's.

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Lev Vygotsky

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According to Vygotsky, the child is a(n) __________, and development is a(n) _________.

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Apprentice, apprenticeship.

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Tools are "functions" that develop because of cultural impact development. Culture, especially in the form of language, shapes behavior and thinking. society helps shape and regulate the mind to further develop.

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Cognitive Mediation

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Learning theories

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Everything is learned through experience. Reinforcement. Learning is gradual, so is development.

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Known for Classical Conditioning. Rejected Psychoanalytic theory and explained Freud using learning principles. Rejects stage conceptualization of development. Believes children have no inborn tendencies, use environment determines which way they grow up.

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Watson

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belief that only observed behavior should be studied

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behaviorism

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Known for Operant Conditioning. emphasized positive reinforcement in child rearing.

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B. F. Skinner

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learning thought to become more or less probable depending on consequences it produces.

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Operant Conditioning

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consequences that strengthen a response (increase probability of future response)

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Reinforcement

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something pleasant added in attempt to strengthen behavior, best when continuous and when skill first being learned.

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positive reinforcement

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something unpleasant taken in attempt to strengthen behavior.

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negative reinforcement

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consequences that suppress future response

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punishment

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something unpleasant added in attempt to weaken behavior.

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positive punishment

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something pleasant taken in attempt to weaken behavior

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negative punishment

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no consequence given and behavior becomes less frequent

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extinction

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known for the social learning (cognitive) theory. believed humans' cognitive abilities distinguish them from other animals. observational learning is the most important mechanism for behavior change.

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Albert Bandura

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ways in which humans deliberately exercise control over environments and lives

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human agency

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sense of one's ability to control self or environment

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self-efficacy

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mutual influence of individuals and social environments determines behavior

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reciprocal determinism

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known for Organismic theory, also known for distancing. argued it solved the continuity/ discontinuity as both it is a synthesis of two opposing trends.

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Heinz Werner

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known for the ethological theory. major concepts: complex action patterns, adaptive importance, and evolutionarily significance. demonstrated imprinting and critical periods.

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Konrad Lorenz

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species specific behaviors have fixed action patterns. species specific behaviors (instincts) have specific releasing mechanisms (stimuli)

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Ethological Theories

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Critical to development is the formation of attachments to others.

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attachment theory

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Changes over life span arise from ongoing transactions and mutual influences between organism and changing world, no single end-point to development.

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Systems Theories

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Systems Perspectives:

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- Brofenbrenner's Evolutionary Theory: individuals embedded in four environments
- Gottileb's Evolutionary Theory: development viewed in context of evolutionary history and interaction between individual and environment

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-Influenced by Darwin's work
- Focus on how genes aid in adapting to the environment

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Gottileb's Perspective

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-Development product of interacting between biological and environmental forces in a larger system
-evolution has endowed us with genes
-predisposition to develop in certain direction
-genes don't dictate what happens in development

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Epigenetic Psychobiological Systems Perspective

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process through which genes and environment jointly bring forth particular course of development

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epigenetic principle

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normal species-specific environment contributes to normal patterns of development, instinctive behaviors may not be expressed if environmental conditions do not exist, genes do not determine anything, just partner with environment to influence behavior

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Systems theories