theory - correct answer ✔✔orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts
behavior
continuous development - correct answer ✔✔process of gradually augmenting skills that were with you
since the beginning
discontinuous development - correct answer ✔✔new ways of understanding and learning emerge at
specific times
stages - correct answer ✔✔QUALITIATIVE changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize
specific periods of development
like walking up a set of stairs
contexts - correct answer ✔✔unique combinations of personal/environmental circumstances that
results in a different kinds of change
nature - correct answer ✔✔hereditary information at birth
nurture - correct answer ✔✔forces of the physical/social world
Plasticity - correct answer ✔✔openness to change in response to influential experiences. very plastic in
early ages
lifespan perspective - correct answer ✔✔development is:
1. lifelong
2. multidimensional and multidirectional
3.highly plastic
4. affected by multiple, interacting forces
, development is influenced by - correct answer ✔✔biological, historical, social, and cultural forces
age-graded influences - correct answer ✔✔events strongly related to age and fairly predictable like
walking at 1, puberty at 12
history graded influences - correct answer ✔✔why people born in a certain time (cohort) tends to be
different from other age groups (baby boomers)
non-normative influences - correct answer ✔✔irregular events, happen to a few people, not predictable.
ex. getting cancer
who is G. Stanley Hall? - correct answer ✔✔founder of the child study movement
normative approach - correct answer ✔✔behaviors of a large number of people and age related
averages are computed to represent typical development
who created the intelligence test? - correct answer ✔✔Alfred Binet
another name for intelligence test - correct answer ✔✔Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
Psychoanalytic Perspective - correct answer ✔✔people move through a series of stages, confront
conflict between biological drive and social expectations
*Freud+Erikson
discontinuous; both nature and nurture
Psychosexual Theory - correct answer ✔✔how parents manage their children sexual and aggressive
drives in early years are crucial to healthy personality development
3 parts of brain - correct answer ✔✔id, ego, superego
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