Question | Answer |
Temperanment | way individuals respond to their external and internal environent-set the stage for the interactive dynamics of growth and development |
Maturation | differentiation and refining of abilities and skills based on in-born timetable |
Personality | encompasses a person's temperament, feelings, character traits, independence, self-esteem, self-concept, behavior, ability to interact w. others. adapt to life changes |
Unconscious mind | the part of a person mental life of which the person is unaware |
Defense echanisms/adaptive mechanisms | results of conflicts bw ID impulses and the anxiety created by the conflicts due to social and environmental reactions |
Fixation | immobilization/inablity of the personality to proceed to the next step |
Developmental stages | levels of achievement-proposed by Erikson |
Havighurst | believed that learning is basic to life and that people continue to learn throughout life |
Peck | believes that although physical capabilities and functional decrease w. old age, mental and social capacities tend to increase in te latter part of life |
Gould | believes that transformation is a central theme during adulthood |
Piaget | cognitive development is an orderly, sequential process in which a variety of new expierence (stimuli) must exist before intellectual abilities can develop |
Kohlberg | reasons an individual makes a decision addresses moral development in children and adults |
Gilligan | reported that women oten consider the dilemmas Kohlberg used in his research to be irrelevant |
Fowler | describes the development of faith as a force that gives meaning to a person's life |
Accomodation | process of change |
Adaptation | coping behavior, ability to handle to the damand made by the environment |
Moral | relating to right and wrong |
Morality | refers to the requirement necessary for people to live together in society |
Moral Behavior | way a person perceives those requirements and respond to them |
Attachement | lastly strong eotional bond to others, and that infant caregiver relationships is the first such attachement |
Cognitive Developement | manner which people learn to think, reason and use language and other symbols. |