Developmental psychology
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- Reinforcement
- consequences that increase the probability that a behavior will occur in the future.
- mezo system
- enter locking connections
- Cross-sequential studies
- different age groups at several points and times.
- micro system
- you, family, work, school, etc..
- Erie Bronfenbrenner
- bioethilogical approach microsystem, mezosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, croosystem
- Alzeimers
- memory loss, most common in women
- Jean Piaget
- psychologist, theory of cognitive development
- longitudinal study
- the study of same people repeatedly at different ages
- lewis turman
- studied gifted individuals
- Critical period
- a specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest impact consequence. created by konrad lorenz
- Cross-secional studies
- people of different ages are compared at the same time.
- Conclusion
- combinations of factors
- macro-system
- cultural influences of patterns...find values,laws,political system,economic
- social developement
- ways in which individuals interact w/each other. How relationships grow,change,& remain the same
- B.F Skinner
- was a behaviorist,known as operant condition. Consequence on if you continue the behavior.
- Norm
- An event that occurs in a simiar way for most people in a given group
- Personality
- Enduring characteristics that differentiate 1 person from another.
- Cohort
- Group of people born around the same time in the same place.
- Muturation
- Body is readying itself.
- id
- Inherited biological instincts & urges. Present at birth,all it wants is pleasure. Instinct drives-sex & agression.In the unconscious mind drive the pleasure principle
- Sigmund Freud
- (Analyst) Author of phycho analitic theory. Very important belief of the unconsious. Dreams trigger freudian slip (slip of tongue)
- Cognitive developement
- Changing intellectual capacity
- Continuous
- Developement is gradual w/achievement at 1 level building on achievements at a previous level.
- Non-normative life events
- A typical events that occur in a particular person's life at a time when they dont happen to most people. Ex.prg. 9 yr old
- Normative age graded
- Biological & enviromental influences similar for individuals in a particular age groups reguardless or when & where they are raised. Ex. menopause,puberty
- Normative history graded influences
- biologica and environment influences associated with a particlar historical moment
- Erikson psycho analyst
- writes psychosocial theory. searching for our identity. 1)oral, 2)anal, 3) phallic
- Bornsteen
- created sensitive period
- Environment (nurture)
- environment influences shape the self
- Physical development
- studying the bodies make- up
- Heredity
- (nature) genetic material recieved by biological parents
- Human development
- scientific study of the ways people change and stay the same from conception to death.
- Konrad Lorenz
- imprinted- behavior of baby birds that insures they will stay close to their mother for food and protection
- Discontinuous
- develop in distinct stages. thinking in concrete level to abstract level.
- Albert Bandura
- *Social learning theory. -the most important aspects of our behavior is what we learned.
- Self-efficacy
- know what has to be done and you believe you can do it.
- Punishment
- consequences that decrease the probability that a behavior will not occur in the future.
- Exo system
- influences that in compass societal ex)places of worship
- Ego
- executive of the personality. would sy it is wrong to steal
- erogenous zone
- area of the body capable of producing plesure.
- fixation
- unresolved conflict caused by over endulgence or frustration
- Overly endulged
- gulible, passive, need a lot of attention
- frustrated
- oral agressive personality, argumentative senicle
- phallic stage
- sexual interest that causes the child to be attracted to the opposite sex.