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Life Span Developmental Psychology
Week 1
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Undergraduate 1
05/03/2010

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Definition of Human development
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Concerned with how and why people change over time as well as how and why they remain the same
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discuss Continuity vs discontinuity
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Continual progression throughout life vs Identifiable stages
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List internal factors in Human Development

 

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genetics, physical maturation and cognition
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List external factors in human devlopment

 

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environmental and social interactions
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Biology and Environment

describe Nature

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inherited traits

 

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Biology and Environment

Describe Nurture

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Enviromental

 

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Continuity
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continual progression from beginning of life to the end
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Discontinuity
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growth as occurring in identifiable stages each with distinct problems & characteristics

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Independent variable
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: variable can be changed “independently” of other factors; “cause
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Dependent variable
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: this variable “depends” on what happens to subjects in the experiment; “effect”

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Longitudinal
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studying the same individuals over a “long” period of time 
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Cross Sectional
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comparison of people at various ages
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Cross Sequential: 
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combination of longitudinal and cross sectional designs; starts with a cross sectional studies of individuals with different ages then after some time, the same individuals are tested again

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Correlation
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a mathematical statistic that indicates whether 2 variables are related to each other
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Positive correlation: 
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one variable changes in the same direction as another variable changes
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Negative correlation
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when 2 variables are inversely related; when one goes up the other goes down

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Causation
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 when change in one variable causes a change in another
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Cohort effect
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changes due to a subject’s time of birth or generation but not actually to “age”

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Psychoanalytic Theory: 
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interprets human behavior and development in terms of intrinsic drives and motives, many of which are unconscious
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Reinforcement
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a term used in operant conditioning to explain anything that “increases” a behavior

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Punishment

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term used in operant conditioning to explain anything that “decreases” a behavior
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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)
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range of skills that can be used without assistance versus what can be obtained with help

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