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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
01/25/2012

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 Science of Human Development
Definition
 Seeks to understand how and why people-all kinds of people, everywhere-change or remain the same over time.
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 Developmental Study
Definition
 is a science
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Empirical
Definition
is based on data, on many experiences, on demonstrations, on facts.
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Dynamic

 

Definition
View of human development as always changing.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Definition

A leader in understanding ecological system approach

 

- He belived that developmentalists need to examing all systems surrounding the development of each person.

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Ecological-Aystems Approach
Definition
A vision of how human development should be studied, with the person considered in all the contexts and interations that constis
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The Butterfly Effect
Definition
A small change chould have a large effect.
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Corhort
Definition
People born within a few years of one another & share some of the same values, events, technologies, and culture.
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Microsystems
Definition

Elements of a person's immediate surrounding

 

- Such as family and peer group

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Exosystems
Definition
local institutions as school and church.
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Macrosystems
Definition
larger social setting, including culuture values, economic policies, and political processes.
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