continuous- knowledge and development builds off itself to become greater and more complex
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learning
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process of acquiring skills and knowledge through experience
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Watson's theory
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behaviorist theory
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nativist viewpoint
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children are born with innate knowledge
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maturation
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typical course of development, things that would happen without external influence
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behaviorist theory
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environmental factors, rewards and punishment, guide development (learning approach)
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Freud's theory
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psychoanalytic theory
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cognitive approach
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An approach to psychology emphasizing the mental processes involved in knowing: how we direct our attention, perceive, remember, think, and solve problems; like Piaget's model
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application
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stage theory
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discontinuous- that there are distinct stages at ages children go through; like Piaget's stage theory
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discontinuous
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qualitative and stage theory- change happens over time in occasional large shifts; like a tadpole awwww
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Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory
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Family, neighborhood, school, community, neighborhood in ecological model
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description
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a spoken or written summary of observations
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Children are born with innate knowledge
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Plato
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explanation
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an interpretation of observations
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maximum freedom for kids
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Rousseau
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psychoanalytic theory
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dreams and early experiences and biological drives (especially sexual) influence development
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qualitative
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discontinuous- that children are qualitatively different at different ages
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Tabula Rasa
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blank slate
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Blank slate, knowledge comes from experience
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Locke, Aristotle
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Piaget's stage theory
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stage theory & discontinuous- ages 2-5 can only focus on one thing; when turning 7 they can focus on 2
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discipline before freedom
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plato and locke
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optimization
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sociocultural approaches
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Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model and Cross-cultural comparisons
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Cross-cultural comparison
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a study that compares the behavior and/or development of people from different cultural or subcultural backgrounds; like how babies in Japan sleep in their moms beds but in the US they sleep in their own rooms
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continuous
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quantitative- gradual change in small increments, same thing but more of it; like a tree growing