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Psych Chapter 9

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Continuous Development   Development as a cumulative process gradually improving on existing skills  
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Discontinuous   Development that takes place in unique stages  
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Nature   Biology and genetics  
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Nurture   Our environment and culture  
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Psychosocial Development   Theory that emphasizes the social nature of our develpoment rather than sexual nature  
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Schemata   Concepts that are used to help us categorize and interpret information  
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Assimilation   When you take information that is comparable to what they already know  
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Accommodation   Describes when they change there schemata based on new information  
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cognitive development   domain of lifespan development that examines learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity  
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developmental milestone   approximate ages at which children reach specific normative events  
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normative approach   study of development using norms, or average ages, when most children reach specific developmental milestones  
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physical development   domain of lifespan development that examines growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness  
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concrete operational stage   third stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from about 7 to 11 years old, children can think logically about real (concrete) events  
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conservation   idea that even if you change the appearance of something, it is still equal in size, volume, or number as long as nothing is added or removed  
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egocentrism   preoperational child’s difficulty in taking the perspective of others  
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formal operational stage   final stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from age 11 and up, children are able to deal with abstract ideas and hypothetical situations  
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object permanence   idea that even if something is out of sight, it still exists  
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preoperational stage   second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from ages 2 to 7, children learn to use symbols and language but do not understand mental operations and often think illogically  
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psychosexual development   process proposed by Freud in which pleasure-seeking urges focus on different erogenous zones of the body as humans move through five stages of life  
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reversibility   principle that objects can be changed, but then returned back to their original form or condition  
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schema   (plural = schemata) concept (mental model) that is used to help us categorize and interpret information  
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