Developmental Psy Flashcards

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Nature is …..

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genetics

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Nurture is the….

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Environment

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Both nature andNurture play a vital role in ……

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Development

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What does twin studies show in development

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this because twins raised in two different environments have different outcomes and all children in a family experience their environment differently, so they still have different nurture

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o Developmental scientists attempt to determine how nature and nurture work together to influence how

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People grow and change

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From what ages does the rain undergo a lot of develoment, producing 700 new neural connections. During this age group experience and environment play a vital role and brain-building exercises are very insightful.

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Ages 1-3

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genotype influence is ….

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Genetic characteristics like mutations, blood pressure, and diabetes (can not be seen)

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Phenotype influence is …..

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Physical characteristics like height, eye color, and hair type (can be seen)

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Althrough people may share the same environment, there are different…..

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factors

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shared environments are…

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things within the family environment that are shared by siblings, like number of books in a home

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  • Non-Shared are….
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things within the family environment that is not shared by siblings, like different friends and different teachers

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what are the stages of piagets theory of cognitive development

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Sensorimotor
Preoperations
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations

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Sensorimotor (0-2) is when…

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Infants understand the world and think using only their senses and motor skills by watching, listening, touching, and tasting.

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Preoperations (2-6) is when …..

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Preschoolers explore the world using their own thoughts as guides and develop language skills to communicate their thoughts to others; advances are also characterized by several errors in logic.

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Concrete Operations (7-11) is when……

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School-aged children become able to solve everyday logical problems. But thinking is not fully mature, so thinking only applies to tangible and specific items.

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Formal Operations (12+) is when….

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Adolescents and adults can reason logically/abstractly about all possibilities, events, and concepts.

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Erickson was influenced by freud, but placed less emphasis on instinctual drives as motivators of develoment and focused more on the role of ….

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the social world, society, and culture in shaping development.

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. Erikson proposed that we progress through eight stages of psychosocial development that include changes in how we understand and interact….

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with others, society, and ourselves

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(Erickson) Each of the stages presents a unique development task, or crisis, that must be resolved and how well that is addressed determines the ability to which the person deals with the demands made by the next stage of development. (True or False)

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TRUE

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Trust vs. Mistrust ( (0-1)

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Infants learn to trust others with basic needs or to lack confidence that needs will be met.

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Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (1-3)

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Toddlers learn to be self-sufficient and independent through toilet training and feeding or lack confidence in their own abilities

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Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6)

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Young children become ambitious and eager for responsibility or experience overwhelming guilt for their curiosity and overstepping boundaries

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Industry vs. Inferiority (6-12)

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Children learn to be hard working, competent, and productive mastering new skills in school and home life or experience difficulty leading to feelings of inadequacy

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Identity vs. Role Confusion (Puberty to Early Adulthood)

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Adolescents search for a sense of self by experimenting with roles and try to find out “who am I?”

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Intimacy vs. Isolation ( Early Adulthood)
Young adults seek companionship and close relations with another person or experience isolation and self-absorption through difficulty developing intimate relationships with others
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Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle Adulthood)
Adults contribute to and guide the next generation or remain emotionally impoverished and concerned about themselves
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Integrity vs. Despair (Late Adulthood)
Older adult look at life and either view life as meaningful and productive or feel despair over goals that they never reached and fear of death
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* Kohlberg felt that moral development was principally concerned with justice and continues through an individual’s lifetime through ......
Six stages
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Kohlbergs level 1: Preconventional consist of...
1. Obedience and punishment orientation (How can I avoid punishment) 2. Self-interest Orientation ( what is in it for me)
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Kohlbergs level 2: Conventional
3. interpersonal accord and conformity (social norms) 4. Authority and social order maintaining orientation (law and order morality)
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Kohlbergs level 3: post-conventional
5. social contract orientation 6. universal ethical principles (principled conscience)
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* Schema is....
categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand the world; the mental and physical actions involved in understanding and knowing
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o According to Piaget, as experiences happen the new information modifies previously ......
existing schemas
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what is an example of a schema ?
Schema about a dog is only knowing small dogs, but once you see a large dog, you now know dogs come in multiple sizes
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* Assimilation is....
the process of taking in new information into our previously existing schemas; a subjective process where we modify things to somewhat fit into our preexisting beliefs
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Assimilation example ...
Labeling the new dog that you see as a dog is assimilating
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* Accommodation is.....
the process of changing or altering our existing schemas in light of new information
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What is an example of Accommodation ?
Seeing a wolf and creating a new schema because it is not a dog
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* The development of personality comes from a combination of different factors including .........
heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, and cultural environment.
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* Freud believed that much of our behavior is driven by unconscious impulses that are outside of our awareness. We progress though a series of psychosexual stages where our unconscious drives are focused on different parts of the body,.............
which makes stimulation to those parts a source of pleasure.
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Oral (0-1) stage focus of libido is the....
Mouth, Tougue, and Lips
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Anal( 1-3) stage focus of libio is ......
Anus
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Phallic (3-6) stage focus of libido is....
genitals
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Latency (6-12) does not have a focus of libido .... (True or False)
TRUE
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Oral stage major development is ....
Weaning off of breast feeding or formula
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Anal stage major development is ....
Toliet training
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Phallic stage major development.....
Resolving Oedipus/Electra Complex
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Latency stage major development...
Developing Defense Mechanisms
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Genital stage major development
Reaching Full Sexual Maturity
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Orage stage adult fixation ...
Smoking, Overeating
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Anal stage adult fixation?
Orderliness, Messiness
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Phallic stage Adult fixation ?
Deviancy, Sexual Dysfunction
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Latency stage does not have an adult fixation? (TRUE or FALSE)
TRUE
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Gental stage adult fixation? ..
If all stages successfully complete, then sexually mature and mentally healthy