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Chapter 1-6
Question | Answer |
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A ______________ has uniform procedures for administration and scoring | standardized test |
The "ethological theory" is by | Lorenz & Bowlby |
"Psychoanalytic theory" | Freud & Erikson |
Bronfenbrenner | "ecological theory" |
Skinner, Bandura, Piaget, & Vygotsky | "behavioral and social cognitive theory" |
Information-processing theory, Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, and Paiget's developmental theory have in common: | they are all cognitive theories |
marian Wright Edelman, a children's rights activiset believes that _________________ is our society's most important function and needs to be taken more seriously than we have in the past | parenting and nurturing the next generation of children |
define: Development | the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span |
define: Life-span | deveopment involves growth, but it also includes decline |
Traditional approach | little or no change in adulthood, and decline in old age |
Life-span approach | developmental change throughout adulthood as well as childhood |
Human Life Span is: | 122 years -maximum life span of humans has not changed since the beginning of recorded history |
Life Expectancy | the average number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live -Life expectancy increased by 30 years in the 20th century. |
Life-span perspective views development as: (6) | -lifelong -multidimensional -multidirectional -plastic -multidisciplinary -contextual |
Three types of Influences | -Normative Age-graded Influences -Normative History-graded Influences -Non-normative Life Events |
Contemporary concerns in Life-Span development | -Health and Well-being -Parenting and Education -Sociocultural Contexts and Diversity ---cross-cultural studies ---ethnicity ---socioeconomic status (SES) ---gender |
define: Social Policy | a government's course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens -values -economics/poverty -politics ---children ---the elderly |
define: biological processes | changes in an individual's physical nature |
Cognitive processes | changes in the individual's thought, intelligence and language |
Socioemotional processes | changes in the individual's relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and change in personality. |