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chapter 1

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Developmental Science   Field of study devoted to understanding consistency and change throughout the lifespan  
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theory   an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior  
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continuous   process of gradually augmenting the same type of skills that where there to begin with  
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discontinuous   process where new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times  
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stages   qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development  
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contexts   unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change  
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nature-nurture controversy   disagreement among theorists about whether genetic or environmental factors are more important influences on development  
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lifespan perspective   4 assumptions 1) lifelong 2)multidimensional and multidirectional 3) highly plastic 4) affected by multiple interacting forces  
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age graded influences   events strongly related to age and fairly predictable in when they occur and how long they last  
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history- graded influence   explains why people born around the same time are alike that are different from people born at different times  
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nonnormative- influences   irregular events  
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psychoanalytic perspective   people advance through series of stages where they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations  
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psychosexual theory   emphasizes how parents manage child's sexual and aggressive drives the first few years are curtail for personality development  
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psychosocial theory   Erikson emphasized in addition to meditating between id impulses and superego demands the ego makes a positive contribution to development, acquiring attitudes and skills at each stage  
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Behaviorism   directly observable events, stimuli and responses  
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social learning theory   emphasizes modeling also known as imitation or observable learning  
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Behavioral modification   procedures combining conditioning and modeling to limit unwanted behaviors  
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cognitive developmental theory   children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore their world  
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information processing   human mind might also be viewed as a symbol - manipulation system through which information flows  
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developmental cognitve neuroscience   brings together researchers from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine to study the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns  
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ethology   concerned with the adaptive or survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history  
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sensitive period   optimal time for certain capacities to emerge and where the individual is responsive to environmental influences  
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evolutionary developmental psychology   understands adaptive value of species wide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as they change with age  
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socioculture theory   how value, beliefs, customs, and skills of a social group is transmitted to next generation  
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Ecological systems theory   views the person as developing with in a complex system of relationships  
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microsystem   innermost level of environment consists of activities and interaction patterns in persons immediate surroundings  
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mesosystem   encompasses connections between microorganism  
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exosystem   social settings that don't contain developing person but affect experiences in immediate surroundings  
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macrosystem   temporal dimensions of Bronfenbernner life changes can be imposed externally or with in person  
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naturalistic observation   go into fields and record behavior of intrest  
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structured observations   investigator sets up lab situation that shows behavior of interest  
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clinical interview   researchers use flexible,conversational style to probe for the participants point of view  
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structured interviews   participant asked some set of questions in same way  
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clinical or case study method   groups wide range of info on one person including observations, interviews, and test scores  
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ethonography   method borrowed from the field of anthropology descriptive, qualitative technique directed towards understanding a culture or a distict social group through participant observation  
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correlation design   researchers gather info on individuals, generally in natural life circumstances, without altering their experiences  
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correlation coefficient   a number that describes how two measures or variables are associated with each other  
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experimental design   permits inferences about cause and effect because researchers use an evenhanded procedure to assign people to two or more treatment conditions  
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independent variable   one that the investigator expects to cause changes in another variable  
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dependent variable   the one the investigator expects to be influenced by the independent variable  
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random assignment   participants to treatment conditions by using an unbiased procedure such as drawing numbers out of a hat or flipping a coin investigators increase the chances that participants characteristics will be equally distributed across treatment groups  
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longitudinal design   participants are studied repeatedly and changes are noted at they age  
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cohort effects   people born around the same time period are influenced by a particular set of historical and cultural conditions  
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cross-sectional design   groups of people differing in age are studied at the same point in time  
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sequential designs   investigators conduct several similar cross-sectional or longitudinal studies at varying times  
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