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| What are the 5 characteristics of development? |
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1. Multidirectional
2. Multicultural
3. Multicontextual
4. Multidisciplinary
5. Plasticity |
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stable or erratic
physical, social, and/or intellectual growth |
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Historical, socioeconomical
Values, customs, assumptions |
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Culture Specific
Country, orgin |
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Influence from different disciplines
Examples: History, Education, Religion, Biology |
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The capacity to change
- Molds, shapes
- Durability in hard times |
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| What are the 3 domains of development? |
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1. Physical
2. Cognitive
3. Social/Emotional |
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| What are the stages of development? |
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1. Prenatal
2. Infancy
3. Early Childhood
4. Middle Childhood
5. Adolescence
6. Early Adulthood
7. Middle Adulthood
8. Late Adulthood
9. Death and Dying |
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| What is continuous development? |
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| gradual change, the amount increases over time Height, slope without any distinct change |
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| What is discontinuous development? |
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| distinct stages and the quality changes over time Intellect, steps of change |
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Two people can start at the same point, but can take many different paths.
One college and one in the juvenile system |
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Two people start in different places, follow different paths, but end in the same place.
One rich kid, one poor kid, go to school, want attention, and get negative attention and end in the JDC system. |
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| John Locke and Tabula Rasa |
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| blank slate, born blank and the world writes on us, children are not in control |
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| Rousseau and notion of noble savages |
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| children have the sense of right and wrong, adults harm them, world makes them bad, children can control the pathways |
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| Darwin and the theory of evolution |
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| important for development psych, higher order |
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o Journals about children
o Notations about how they are developing
o Subjective, not research based but important about recording development and comparing |
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| The Normative Period - Stanley Hall |
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o Founder Child Study Development
o Unfolding process |
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| Mental Testing Movement – Binet |
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o Stanford University Intelligence Test
o Used for a scale to rate intelligence |
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o Nature and Nurture are of equal importance
o Human works with both to create the whole person |
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• Research Question
• Develop a hypothesis
• Test the hypotheses
• Draw conclusions
• Try to replicate
• Make findings available |
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o Natural – observe as it naturally happens
o Structured – focus groups, labs, observe them, record them
o Strengths: To see things as they actually are happening
o Weaknesses: you are not able to control it, various factors you can’t see |
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| Self - Reports (Research) |
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o Clinical Interviews
• One on One Interviews
o Structured Interviews and Surveys
• Set of structured questions
o Weaknesses: Lies, Honesty in reporting, response bias,
o Strengths: Lots of data to collect |
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o Done with one person, unique trait, development
o Weakness: One person, sample size
o Strengths: Lots of details |
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o Involved with that setting for months, systematic observations, from the inside
o Strength: Insider view
o Weakness: Bias about what you see and record |
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- How consistent are your measures
- Several people measuring the same thing, is there consistency?
- Test- Rate Reliability – are you getting the same results?
- Example: Dart board – hit the same spot again and again |
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- Accuracy: Are you measuring what you intend to measure?
- Dart Board – hitting the bulls eye |
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- Examination between 2 different variables
- Cannot be a cause and effect, the effect can also be the cause
- Charts positive, negative and zero correlation |
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- Looking for cause and effect
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Experimental Group
Control Group |
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- Looks at groups of different ages who share something in common
- Get it done fast, results quickly, publish
- Other influences, variables are all happening (weakness)
- Cohort Effects (weakness) – context of time (1950 compared to 1995)
- Can’t generalize to various generations, culture, etc |
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- Studies over a period of time
- Ages 2,5,8,10, etc
- Same group of people (strength)
- Expensive, time consuming |
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- Several groups and ages over time to study
- Combines both Longitudinal and Cross sectional |
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- Give kids a task to complete, (novel)
- Follow the plan to solving the task
- A puzzle and watching the problem solving
- Peer help, etc |
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