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Human Growth & Development - Unit 1| 68 questions and answers.
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- HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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- Oxford University (OX)
Human Growth & Development - Unit 1| 68 questions and answers.
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Human Growth & Development - Unit 168 questions and answers
Middle-late childhood - answer Ages 6-12 characterized by acquiring skills and learning
ID - answer According to Freud we are born with this structure and it requires immediate
gratification
Operant Conditioning - answer Is a perspective that emphasizes the consequences of a behavior
produce changes in the probability of the behavior's occurrence including rewards which
increase the likelihood of behavior and punishments which decrease the likelihood of behavior.
Older Adulthood - answer Ages 65-100+ characterized by longevity new opportunity amid
physical decline
Chronological Age - answer How old one is
Crisis - answer The term Erikson uses to describe a stage of development with two opposing
needs.
Super Ego - answer According to Freud, this develops at age 6 and represents a perfectionistic
version of social reality.
Development - answer Patterns of change from conception to death
Socio-emotional - answer Development influenced by emotions, feelings, relationships,
morality, and social context like education and culture
, Stability vs Change - answer Refers to the question whether or not developmental
characteristics remain the same throughout life or whether they vary significantly throughout
life
Qualitative - answer Change that represents a reintegration and reorganization in type and
character
Theory - answer A set of lenses that provide a perspective that shape our observations. An
interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain events and make developmental
prediction.
Traditional - answer Developmental theory that reasoned that most of the important aspects of
development are accomplished during childhood and adolescence with little to no change in
adulthood, and decline in old age
Life expectancy - answer The average number of years a member of a species will probably live
often based on birth year (currently 78 years)
Latency - answer During this psychosexual stage, the super-ego grows in strength and the child's
ego learns to negotiation the competing demands of the id and superego.
Prenatal or fetal - answer The first 38 weeks after conception characterized by massive growth
Pre-operational - answer According to Piaget, at this stage, kids learn through pretend play but
still struggle with logic and taking the point of view of other people but work to acquire the
symbol representation of the world around them.
Middle Age - answer Ages 35-64 characterized by nurturing family, career, and community
Biological Age - answer How old one's body is compared to their chronological age
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