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PSY 3300-004 E1 Test

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Conditioning
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The science of human development is defined as the study of_____.
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A developmentalist who is interested in studying the influences of a person's immediate environment on his or hear behavior is focusing on which system?
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reinforcement
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explicit memory
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T/F: Cohort differences are an example of the impact of the social context on development
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Science of Human Development-
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Genes and environment (affect/ do not affect) every aspect of development.
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apprenticeship in thinking
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A cohort is defined as a group of people....
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In an experiment that tests the effects of group size on individual effort in a tug-of-war task, the number of people in each group is the______
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information processing theory
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longitudinal research
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Developmental Theory
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code of ethics
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From ages 2 to 10, children ordinarily gain a few pounds a year. This is an example of
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socioeconomic status (SES)
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T/F: each social context influences development independently
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Zone of proximal development
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Behaviorism
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MIcrosystem
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how and why people change or remain the same
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the process in which a particular behavior is followed by something desire which makes the person or animal more likely to repeat the action
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is a theory that human cognition that compares thinking to the ways in which a computer analyzes data through the process of sensory input, connections, stored memories and out put
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affect
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Grand theory,emphasizes laws and processes how behavior is learned, also called learning theory.
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Learning process that occurs though association of two stimuli or positive or negative reinforcement.
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is memory that is easy to retrieve on demand, usually with words
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in sociocultural theory, this is the idea that developmental growth occurs when the child adapts a mentor in order to learn new skills, knowledge, and concepts that the child is close to learning but cannot master w/out help
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in vygotsky's view, this is the process by which each person develops new competencies by learning from skilled mentors or tutors
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seeks to understand how and why all people change or remain the same over time
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a set of moral principals that developmental psychologist work from
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born within a few years of each other
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Continuity in development
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is determined by a persons wealth
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follows a group of individuals are measured over a long period of time to measure both change and stability
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A systematic statement of principles and generalization, for how and why people change as they grow.
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independent variable
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F; each social context affects the way a person develops and each is affected by the others contexts
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One way to express this variability is to note that some characteristics are stable overtime, called _____, and other characteristics are not stable overtime, called_______.
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In an experiment, the treatment of interest is given to the_____group; the no-treatment group is the_____group.
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Developmental Science is __________meaning that it is based on data, experiences, demonstrations, and facts.
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the grammar of a language includes rules of word order, verb forms, and all other methods used to communicate meaning, apart from the words themselves
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refers to the dramatic increase in the infant's vocabulary that begins at about 18 months of age
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refers to the process by which we observe other people's behavior and then copy it
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collects non-numerical descriptions of participants i.e. characteristics, behaviors
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seeks to explain development as the result of a dynamic interaction between developing persons and the surrounding social and cultural forces
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is when two variables are likely to be connected but does not prove cause and effect
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in Piaget's theory these are a type of feedback loop in sensorimotor intelligence involving the infant's own body, in which infants take in experiences (such as sucking and grasping) and try to make sense of them

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