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Chapters 1-3

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show The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human lifespan  
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Original sin   show
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Tabula Rasa   show
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show children are inherently good and therefore should be permitted to grow naturally with little parental monitoring or contraint.  
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life-span prospective   show
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context   show
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show influnces that are similar for individuals in a particular age group.  
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normative history-graded influences   show
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normative life events   show
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culture   show
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show comparison of one culture with one or more.  
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show characteristics based on heritage, nationality, race, religion and language  
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SES   show
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gender   show
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show national government's course of action  
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biological process   show
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show changes in an indivuals throught, intelligence and language  
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show changes in an indivuals relationships with other people, emotions, and personality  
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chronological age   show
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show age in terms of health  
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show adaptive capacities compared with those of other indivuals of the same chronological age  
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social age   show
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stability-change issue   show
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show extend to which development involves gradual, cumulative change or distinct changes.  
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show an interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain and make predictions.  
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What is a hypothesis?   show
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Psychoanalytic theories?   show
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show includes eight stages of human development. Each stateconsists of a unique developmental task that confronts indivuals with a crisis that must be resolved.  
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show Sensorimotor, birth to 2 years and preopreational 2-7 years. States that children actively construct their understanding of the world go through four states of congntive development. Sensorimotor stage, preoperational state, concret operational stage an  
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show Guided participation. We learn through interation with others, zone of prximal development. A sociocultural congnitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development.  
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show emphasizes that indivuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize abou tit. Central to this theory are the process of memory and thinking.  
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show the view of psychologists who emphasize behavior, environment, and cognition as the key factors in development.  
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show stresses that bahavior is strongly influence by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.  
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Ecological theory:   show
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show an orientation that does not folllow any one theoretical approach, bur rather selects from each theory whatever is considered its best features.  
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show observing behavior in real world settings  
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standardized tests   show
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show an in-depth look at a single indivual  
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show a record of information about a lifetime chronology of events and activities that often involved a combination of data records on education, work, family, and residence.  
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show has the purpose of observing and recording behavior  
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correlation research   show
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show the number based on statistical analysis that is used to describe the degree of association between two variables  
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show a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more of the factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are maniuplated while all other factors are held constant.  
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cross sectional approach   show
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show a reserach strategy in which the same indivuals are studied over a period of time, usually several years ore more.  
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show a combined cross sectional, longitudinal design  
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show effects due to a person's time of birth, era, or generation but not to actual age  
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show threadlike structures that come in 23 pairs, one member of each pair coming from each parent, contain DNA.  
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DNA   show
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genes   show
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show cellular reproduction in which the cell's nucleus duplicates, 2 daughter cells  
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meiosis   show
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zygote   show
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show genetic heritage  
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phenotype   show
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show capacity for change  
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show The debate concerning the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature", i.e. nativism, or philosophical empiricism, innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture") in determining or causing individual differences in physical and beh  
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show chronological (age), biological (health), psychological (emotional and cognative ability) and social (roles/expectations)  
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show Freud (oral and anal stages) and Erikson (1. trust vs mistrust, 2. autonomy vs shame/doubt and 3. integrity vs despair)  
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Cognative theorists:   show
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show Pavlov (classical conditions...we learn through association) Watson (founder of behaviorism, Little Albert experiment) and Skinner (consequences for behavior--reinforcement and punishment) and Bandura (observational learning)  
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show Piaget's theory, birth to 2 years. Refers to all aspects of movement and sensation and the interaction of the two.  
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Pavlov(Behaverial and Social Cognatiave Theories)   show
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Watson(Behaverial and Social Cognatiave Theories)   show
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show consequenes of behavior, reinformeent and punishment...only worked with animals  
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Bandura (Behaverial and Social Cognatiave Theories)   show
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Monozygotic Twins   show
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Dizygotic twins   show
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