The conscience
Develops from ages 3 to 6 through
interactions with caregivers
Back
Operant conditioning
Front
Skinner
-a method of influencing behavior by rewarding desired behaviors and punishing undesired ones
-Positive and negative reinforcement- a number line for Reinforcement
punishment decreases likelihood to repeat
Operations to get desired behavior
Back
Scientific Beginnings
Front
Darwin Theory of
evolution
Hall, Gesell Normative
approach
Binet Mental testing
movement
Back
Developmental science:
understanding _____ and _____ throughout the lifespan.
Front
Biological
Psychological
Social
Back
stages
Front
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize periods of developments
Back
psycho-social theory
Front
Erikson -8 stages-emphasized that in addition to mediating between id impulses and superego demands, the ego makes a positive contribution to development, acquiring attitudes and skills that make the individual and active, contributing member of society
Erikson has 8 stages
Back
Piaget's stages
Front
Cognitive Development
1. sensorimotor stage: birth-2 -senses
2. preoperational stage: 2-7- symbols
3. concrete operations stage: 7-12 - hypothetical
stages of brain development
Back
cognitive-developmental theory
Front
children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore their world
Mental structures adapt to better fit with
environment.
Development moves through four broad
stages.
Piaget, Vygotsky, information processing theory
Back
developmental science
Front
a field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the lifespan.eg. sex, race, eye color
Back
Classical conditioning
Front
Stimulus-response
Back
Nuture
Front
Physical and social forces
Influences bio and psychological development.
personality can be modified by care-giving experience
Back
dependent variable
Front
The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the research is interested.
Effect
What you are measuring
eg the blood pressure
Back
nature-nurture controversy
Front
the questions of whether genetic or environmental factors are more important to developments
Back
sensorimotor
Front
birth to 2yrs): the babys use of the senses and movements to explore the
world experiencing the world through senses and actions-looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, grasping. Begin basic language
Back
ID
Front
Largest portion of the mind
Unconscious, present at birth
Source of biological needs/desires
The pleasure principal
Back
jean Piaget cognitive development
Front
equilibration- a mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next
Back
discontinuous
Front
a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times suddenly eg. Erickson's stages
Back
behaviorism
Front
directly observable events- stimuli and responses- are the appropriate focus of study
1. Classical
conditioning Stimulus-response
2. Operant conditioning -Reinforcers and
punishments-Skinner
3. Social learning
theory
Social-cognitive
approach
Back
contexts
Front
unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change
Back
age-graded influences
Front
events that are strongly related to age and therefore fairly predictable in when they occur and how long they last example
Is 16 get a drivers license or
gestation is pregnancy and 12 months
Back
Concrete operational
Front
7-12 yrs): School age -the school-age child engages in more organized, logical reasoning . very black and white and concreate. Know that objects are larger and what is heavier and which odd shaped has more
Back
Formal operational
Front
-12-adult years):
-systematic reasoning of adolescents and adults
-thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations.
Back
history-graded influences
Front
explain why people born around the same time-called a cohort- tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times.
e.-Grew up in depression then fix it don't throw it away or war or 2008 housing crisis
Back
normative approach
Front
measures of behavior are taken on large numbers of individuals, and age-related averages are computed to represent typical development
Hall, Gesell
Back
Nature
Front
Hereditary info, from parents at conception
eg personality
Back
Ego
Front
Conscious, rational part of personality
Emerges in early infancy
Redirects id impulses in acceptable ways
Back
Early Scientific theory
Front
Theory of evolution-Darwin
-Natural selection
-Survival of the fittest
Normative approach-Hall, Gesell
-Child study movement
-Development as a maturational process
Mental testing movement-Binet
-First successful intelligence test
-In forefront of nature-nurture controversy
Back
Freud's Three Parts
of the Personality
Front
Id
Largest portion of the mind
Unconscious, present at birth
Source of biological needs/desires
Pleasure principle
Ego
Conscious, rational part of personality
Emerges in early infancy
Redirects id impulses in acceptable ways. Reality principle
Superego
The conscience
Develops from ages 3 to 6 through
interactions with caregivers. Ruled by morals and values
Back
non normative influences
Front
events that are irregular: they happen to just one person or a few people and do not follow a predictable timetable.
eg. Recession when everyone lost their homes and people went back to school
Back
social learning theory
Front
by Bandura,
emphasizes modeling, also known as imitation or observational learning as a powerful source of development
Contributions:
behavior modification
modeling, observational learning
Limitations:
narrow view of environmental influences and
underestimates individual's active role
Back
continuous
Front
a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with
Back
Hall and Gesell
Front
created a system of measuring behavior in order to understand "average" or typical development as a function of age, allowing Gesell to write about the needs of children at certain ages and offer parenting advice
an attempt to solve intercultural problems
Back
plasticity
Front
Development is open to lifelong change
Change occurs based on response to influential experiences
Back
Stability
Front
Persistence of individual differences
Lifelong patterns established by early experiences
Back
theory
Front
an orderly, integrated set of statements and ideas that
1. describes-what I observe,
2.explains-cause and effects, and
3.predicts behavior-predicts outcome of an individual
four assumptions make up this broader view; that development is
(1) lifelong-physical, cognitive, emotional, social
(2) multidimensional and multi-directional,-branching
(3) highly plastic-neuroplaticity, and
(4) affected by multiple, interacting forces
Back
behavior modification
Front
consists of procedures that combine conditioning and modeling to eliminate undesirable behaviors and increase desirable responses
Back
Albert Bandura
Front
social learning
1925-present; Field: sociocultural; Contributions: pioneer in social learning theory and observational learning,
stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls, children mimicked play
They can watch reward and punishment of others
Back
psycho-sexual theory
Front
emphasizes that how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development
Oral - 0 to 18 months
Anal- 18 to 36 months (3 years
Phallic - 3 to 6
Latency- 6 to puberty
Genital - puberty
Freud's Theory of Development:
con- it stops at puberty and too sexual
Back
Periods of Development
Front
Prenatal Conception to birth
Infancy and toddler-hood Birth-2 years
Early childhood 2-6 years
Middle childhood 6-11 years
Adolescence 11-18 years
Early adulthood 18-40 years
Middle adulthood 40-65 years
Late adulthood 65 years-death
Back
psychoanalytic perspective
Front
Freud and Erikson
people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines the person's ability to learn, to get along with others, and to cope with anxiety
Back
Stanley Hall
Front
Hall, Gesell Normative
approach
American psychologist who established first research lab and American Psychological Association.
Back
pre-operational stage
Front
2-6yrs): Preschool
-characterized by symbolic but illogical thinking
-representing things with words and images; using initiative rather than logical reasoning. Egocentric lack conservation of volume and think taller glass has more
Back
independent variable
Front
The varible you change to see how it will effect the dependent variable
factor that changes in an experiment
A researcher wants to know whether noise level affects workers blood pressure. In one group, she varies the levels of noise in the environment and records participants blood pressure. In this experiment, the level of noise is the
Back
Binet
Front
Mental testing movement
French psychologist who wanted to identify French schoolchildren needing special attention; devised "mental age"
Developed the idea of an intelligence quotient
First IQ test
Back
resilience
Front
Ability to adapt effectively
in the face of threats to
development
Factors in resilience:
personal characteristics
- warm parental relationship
-social support outside family
- community resources and
opportunities
Back
Normative approach
Front
Hall, Gesell
- An approach to development in which measures of behaviour are taken on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are computed to represent typical development
Back
passive corelation
Front
Back
Section 2
(50 cards)
Developmental
Research Designs
Front
Developmental
Research Designs
Longitudinal Same group studied
at different times
Cross-sectional Different groups studied
at the same time
Sequential
Compares similar
cross-sectional or longitudinal
studies (sequences)
Back
sensitive period
Front
a time that it is optimal for certain capacities to emerge and in which the individual is especially responsive to environmental influences. however. its boundaries are less well-defined than those of a critical period. development can occur later, but it is harder to induce
Back
Lev Vygotsky
Front
Social cultural placed particular emphasis on how culture and social interactions with parents and other significant people influenced a child's cognitive development. Children learn their culture's habits of mind through internalization.
Zpd
cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society- is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a community's culture
They do more or better with others
Zone of proximal development
Back
correlation coefficient
Front
a number that describes how two measures or variables are associated with each other.
Positive or negative correlation
Back
structured interviews
Front
(including tests and questionnaires- in which each participant is asked the same set of questions in the same way
Back
Rights of research participans
Front
Protection from harm
Informed consent
Privacy
Knowledge of results
Beneficial treatments
Eg little Albert don't give unnecessary harm eg white rat
Alabama Syphalis trial
Back
clinical interview
Front
researchers use flexible, conversational style to probe for the participant's point of view
Back
Improving
Developmental Designs
Front
Sequential designs
Compare several similar cross-sectional or
longitudinal studies
Combining experimental and developmental
designs
Experimental manipulation of experiences
Provides evidence of causal association between
experiences and development
Ex take 5,7, and 9 year old and recheck in 2 years and see actual changes
Back
mesosystem
Front
the second level of Brofenbrenner's model which encompasses connections between microsystems
interactions among microsystems.
Schools and churches interacting with kids and families
Back
EEG
Front
electroencephalogram
an amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface. Used for sleep and dream study
Back
macrosystem
Front
consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources
eg historical research that says music helps learning
Back
vygotsky
Front
Zone of Proximal Development "social development theory of learning" theorist
if they had amputation cant walk but if they have artificial limb then they can learn to put it on and walk independently
Back
structured observations
Front
in which the investigator sets up a laboratory situations that evokes the behavior of interest so that every participant has equal opportunity to display the response. Can set up stimulus to get desired response
Back
Correlational
Front
l: -1 to + 1
To detect naturally occurring relationships; to assess how well one variable predicts another
Back
Research methods
Front
Systematic observation
-Naturalistic observation
-Structured observation
Self-reports:
-Clinical interview
-Structured interview, questionnaires,
tests
Clinical, or case study, method
Ethnography
Back
Brofenbrenner's ecological systems theory
Front
Brofenbrenner's We develop within a system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment -complex system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment that constantly interact
Layers of the
environment:
microsystem
mesosystem
exosystem
macrosystem
Chronosystem:
temporal dimension
Back
critical period
Front
The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect eg speech
a time when a particular type of developmental growth must happen if it is ever going to happen
Back
fMRI
Front
functional magnetic resonance imaging. Can see blood flow! Helps us know what area of brain is language
a technique for revealing bloodflow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans also shows if oxygen is depleted in an area
Back
General research Designs
Front
Correlational
Reveals relationships between participants' characteristics and behavior
Does not permit cause-and-effect inferences
Experimental
Participants randomly assigned to treatment conditions
Detects cause-andeffect relationships Findings may not
apply in real-world conditions
Back
correlation study
Front
study that determines the relationship between 2 variables
expresses the relationship between 2 variables; DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION
Back
THE US ranks
Front
-last among developed nations infant mortality
Back
modified experiment
Front
Field Experiment
Conducted in natural settings Capitalizes on existing opportunities for random assignment
Natural/QuasiExperiment
Compares existing differences in treatment
Participant groups matched as much as possible
Back
Ecological approach
Front
Bronfenbrenner
all human development is interconnected
consider all factors envir, family, political , social and how they interact
a form of psychological inquiry that reflects conditions in the real world
Back
naturalistic observation
Front
to go into the field, or natural environment, and record the behavior of interest. May not see desired action even after waiting long periods
Back
cross-sectional design
Front
groups of people differing in age are studied at the same point in time on the same day
Look quickly at 18 year old and 30 year old who smoke to see cancer
Back
cohort effects
Front
individuals born in the same time period are influenced by a particular set of historical and cultural conditions. results based on one cohort may not apply to people developing at other times
Back
longitudinal design
Front
participants are studied repeatedly and changes are noted as they get older.
problems
Participant dropout
Practice effects
Cohort effects
Takes a very long time like Stanford genius study 100 years
Back
Self Reports
Front
Clinical
Interview
Conversational style
Probes for participant's viewpoint Provides large
amount of information in brief period
Structured Interview
All participants are asked the same questions in the
same way. Permits comparisons and efficient data collection
Back
experimental design
Front
Hypothesis - testable statement
permits interference about cause and effect because researchers use an evenhanded procedure to assign people to two or more treatment conditions
Independent Variable Manipulated by experimenter
Expected to cause changes in another variable
Dependent Variable-outcome
Measured, but not manipulated, by experimenter
Expected to be influenced by independent variable
Back
cohort
Front
In a _____ design, participants are studied
repeatedly, and changes are noted as they get older
Back
imprinting
Front
A type of learning that is responsible for the bonding between the mother and offspring; common in birds, it occurs during a sensitive or critical period in early life
Back
correlational design
Front
researchers gather information on individuals generally in natural life circumstances, without altering their experiences. Then they look at relationships between participants' characteristics and their behavior or development. No Cause and Effect!!
Back
microsystem
Front
- Innermost level,consists of social settings that do not contain the developing person but affect the individual
the immediate settings with which the child interacts, such as the home, the school, and peers
setting in which the individual lives
eg. kids go home and ask parents to take music
Back
Chronosystem
Front
the temporal dimension of time of Brofenbrenner's model on which relating to the everyday world as opposed to that which is spiritual or eternal
-life changes can be imposed externally, or alternatively, life events
Back
Systemic observation - Reasarch
Front
Naturalistic
Observation
-Observation of behavior in natural contexts
-Reflects participants' everyday lives
Structured Observation
-Observation of behavior in laboratory
-Gives all participants opportunity to display behavior
Back
developmental cognitive neuroscience
Front
brings together researchers from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine to study the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns
Practical applications
Back
PET scan
Front
positron emission tomography
radioactive glucose injected into patient, site of decay in body measured by detectors. More expensive than fmri
Back
clinical or case study
Front
method which brings together a wide ranges of information on one person, including interviews, observations, and test scores. Can't make overall generalizations about all serial killers from detailed study of one person
Back
exosystem
Front
local institutions such as school and church and government
consists of social settings that do not contain the developing person but affect the individual's experiences
Back
longitudinal studies
Front
Permit longitudinal and cross-sectional
comparisons
research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period
Back
ethnography
Front
descriptive, qualitative research which is directed toward understanding a culture or distinct social group through participant observation
Participant observation of culture or social group Rich, descriptive insights Does not permit generalization from
findings
Back
Random Assignment
Front
Unbiased procedure used to assign
participants to treatment conditions
Increases chances that characteristics will be
equally distributed across conditions
Back
evolutionary developmental psychology
Front
it seeks to understand the adaptive value of species-wide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies, as those competencies change with age
Person-environment system throughout
the lifespan
Back
socio-cultural theory
Front
Transmission to the next generation of a culture, values, beliefs, __CUSTOMS , skills,
of a social group- is transmitted to the next generation. according to Vygotsky, social interaction- in particular,
Back
dependent variable
Front
The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
Back
neuroscience
Front
Looks at changes in the brain and the developing persons cognitive processing and behavior patterns -fMRI , PET scan, EEG
Back
information processing perspective
Front
The human mind is viewed as as a symbol-manipulating system
We actively make sense of our own thinking
through which information flows
Development as a continuous
process
Back
Experimental
Front
: Can determine CAUSE. IV=independent variable and DV= dependent variable
To explore cause and effect
Back
sequential designs
Front
in which they conduct several similar cross-sectional or longitudinal studies (called sequences)
hybrid of cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. avoid cohort effect
eg. look at 8, 10 and 12 year old for several years
Back
ethology
Front
adaptive, or survival, value of behavior and it's evolutionary history
Stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.