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Developmental/ Lifespan
Developmental/Lifespan Psychology 156
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/07/2009

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Term
John Locke
Definition

Book: Tabula Rasa arguing against "inate evil"

Tabula Rasa - blank slate

Nurture

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Definition

Book: Noble Savage

Can turn DNA on/off

Nature

 

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Arnold Gesell
Definition

Psychometrist

Made IQ tests

Did physical motor development tests on babies

Nature

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Psychology
Definition
Study of human behaviors
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Hypocampus
Definition
used to form new memories
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John B. Watson
Definition

Father of Behaviorism

Little Albert/White Rabbit expierment

Nurture

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Sigmund Freud
Definition

Born with unconious desires

ID, ego (uncouncious), superego (concious)

 

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Jean Piaget
Definition

Biologist

Father of developmental psychology

Did expierements on 3 kids

 

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Cognition
Definition

How the brain works

 

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Stage Theororists
Definition

Piaget, Freud, Erikson

*Stage Theories are discontinuous

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Non Stage Theororists
Definition
Skinner, Watson, Vygotsky
Term

Age Graded Normative Events

 

Definition

Normal Events that you do at certain ages

Ex: Going to kindergarten around age 5

 

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Non Normative Events

 

Definition

Doesn't happen to everyone and doesn't happen at a certain age

Ex: Being homeschooled, or divorce

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Historic Events
Definition

Age at which you expierenced the historical event

Ex: Septmeber 11th

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Non-scientific method
Definition
Anything that doesn't have a control group
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Examples of Non-scientific method
Definition

Case Study- narrative, very subjective

Surveys- ppl. can lie, don't know what they think

Naturalistic Observations- for preliminary data, are subjective, see what you want to see

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