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Cht 2 Theories of Development
PSYC 200: Lifespan Developmental Fall 2010
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
11/03/2010

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Major reasearcher of psychoanalytic theory:
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Sigmond Frued
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Criticism for Psychoanalytic theory
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Sloppy research methods
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What is Psychoanalytic theory?
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Irrational, unconcious drives and motives originate in childhood and underlie human behavior.
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Who is the major researcher for psychosocial theory?
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Erik Erikson
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What is the idea behind psychosocial theory?
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Emphasizes the influence of resolving stages of development in early years of human development, more stages than Frued and includes data in Frued's "Latent" years...
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What is Behaviorism?
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a grand theory that studies observable behavior aka LEARNING THEORY
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Who are the major researchers for Behaviorism?
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Operant conditioning - Skinner

Behavioral conditioning - Pavlov

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Social Learning Theory- what is the theory?
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An extension of Behaviorism, emphasizes the importance of learning from others esp Modelling
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What is modelling?
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in Social Learning theory - imitating others and learning by extension
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Social Efficacy
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In social learning theory - the belief of some people that they can change themselves and effectively alter social context
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Who is an important researcher of Social Learning Theory?
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Albert Bandura - the bobo doll study.
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What is Cognitive Theory
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our thoughts shape our attitudes, beliefs and behaviors
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in Cognitive theory, disequilibrium can be resolved using __________ and ___________ .
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Assimilation and accomodation.
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Define emergent theory Sociocultural and the major researcher:
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Lev Vygotsky, development results from the dynamic interaction btw each person and their cultural forces
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Criticism of Sociocultural Theory
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Does not account for developmental processe that are NTO social/disabilities, etc.
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What is Epigenetic Theory and who is a major researcher?
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Gilbert Gottlieb, considers both the genetic origins of behavior and environmental influences on genes
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