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Chapter 1 - Lifespan
Human Developement for Helping Professionals
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Psychology
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05/02/2012

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Term

Reflective Practice

 

Definition

Deweys View of Education

Careful Consideration of ones belief and knowledge as a precursor to practice.  PG 2

Term
Discontinuity vs Continuity
Definition

Discontinuity

Discontinuing a certain behavior

Continuity

Continuing a certain behavior

Term

Freuds Personality Theory

ID

Definition

We are all born with ID

goes with Oral Stage

Biological sence of self

pursue fulfillment of physical needs

Driven by Pleasure Principal

Term

Freud Personality Theory

 

Ego

Definition

Begins to develope a cognitive and physical skills emerge.

Anal Stage of Psychosexual stages

Rational and Realistic self begins to take shape

Operates under Reality Principal - having an understanding of the world and the behavioral consequeces

Term

Freuds Personality Theory

 

Super Ego

Definition

Feeling guilt when you misbehave

 

follows The Psychosexual stage

 

Phallic

Term
Freuds Psychosexual Stage
Definition

Complexities of the relationships and conflicts rise among  the id, ego and super ego, are a resul of the individuals experiences during these stages.

Changes in the id and its energy levels initiated in each new sage.

Term

Freuds Psychosexual Stages

 

Stage 1: Oral

Definition

Corresponds to the first year of life.

Drives satisfying to the mouth

The term Oral fixation was adapted from this stage.

Term

Freuds Psychosexual Stage

 

Stage 2: Anal

Definition

Begins in the second year in life

Focuses the anal area being the greatest pleasure.

Anal fixation and Anal personality refer back to this stage and parents being overcontrolling about potty training.

Lasts until the age of five

 

Term
Anal Fixation
Definition
Being overly cumpulsive of cleanliness and keeping things in an orderly manner.
Term
Anal Personality
Definition
Term used to discribe Anal Fixation
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Freud Stage 3 Psychosexual Stage: Phallic Stage
Definition
Feel the full force of parental discipline. This is geerally he stage tha children feel particularly closer o the parent of he oppisite sex.
Term
Freud Stage 4 of Psychosexual Stages of Developement: Latency
Definition
Begins around he age of six until puberty, when turmoil abou sexual desires are repressed. Energy is directed into work and play.
Term
Freud Stage 5 of Psychosexual Stage of Developement: Puberty Thru Adulthood
Definition
The individual seeks to fulfill needs and expends energy in socially accepted activities, such as word and marriage.
Term
Ericksons Personality Theory
Definition

Erickson - Neo Freudian

de emphisized the id as the driving force behind all behavior

Emphasized a more rationalal heory behind the ego.

His theory is focused on explaining the psychosexual aspects of behavior, attitudes and feelings towards oe self and others.

Term

Erickson Personality Theories - The Eight Stages of Man: Stage 1

Trust Versus Mistrust

Definition

Child developes a sense that the world is rus worthy

Birth to 1 year

 

Finding Hope

 

Negaive - Fear and Mistrust

Term

Ericksos Personality Theory - Stage 2

Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt

Definition

1 - 3 years

Child developes a sense of independece based on use of mental and motor skills.

 

Finding Willpower

 

Negative - Self Doubt

Term

Ericksons Stages of Developement: Stage 3

 

Initiative vs Guilt

Definition

3 - 5 somtime 6 years of age

Child tries to behave in more grown up roles and responsibilities.

 

Finding a Purpose

Negative - Guilt over thoughts and mis actions

Term

Ericksons Stage of Developement - Stage 4

 

Industry vs Inferiority

Definition

6 - 12 years of age

 

Learn important academic skills and show comparison to peers

 

Competence

 

Lack of Competence

Term

Ericksons Stage of Developement - Stage 5

Identity vs Role Confusion

Definition

Age 12 - 20

 

Adolescent mus move owards adulhood by making choices about values, vocationalal goals, etc.

Term

Ericksons Stage of Developement - Stage 6

Intamacy vs Isolation

 

Fidelity

 

Inability to esablish Sence of Self

Definition

Young Adulhood

 

Becomes willing to share identiy with others and to commit to affiliation and partnerships.

 

Love

 

Fear of Intamacy

 

 

Term

Ericksons Stage of Developement - Stage 7

 

Generativity vs Stagnation

 

Definition

Middle Adulthood

 

Adul wishes to make contribution to he next generation, by producing, metoring and creatig sthing of lasting value, rearing of children, community service, career.

 

Care

 

Self-absorbed

Term

Ericksons Stage of Developement - Stage 8

 

Ego Integrity vs Despair

Definition

Adult comes to term wih life success, failures and missed opportunities.

 

Wisdom

 

Regret

Term

Piaget's Cognitive Developement Theory

 

Definition

Influence of 18h century Philospher Jean- Jaques Rousseau

who argues tha childrens reasoning and understanding emerges naurally in stages and that parents and educators can help most by allowing childen a certain amount of freedom.

Term

Piaget's Cognitive Developement Theory

 - Sensorimotor Stage

Definition

Birth to 2 years of age

 

Thru six substages the source of infans organized actions gradually shifts, at firs all organized behavior is reflexsive - automaically triggered by paticular stimuli. By the end of this stage behavior is guided by represential thought.

 

 

Term

Piaget's Cognitive Developement Theory - Stage 2

 

Preoperational thought

 

Definition

2 to 6 or 7 years of age

 

Thinking is not yet logical

Thought is centered around salient piece of informatio

Term

Piaget's Cognitive Developement Theory -

Stage 3 - Cocrete Operational Thought

Definition

7 - 11 or 12

 

Thinking is gradually more rapid and efficient, allowing children to think about more then one thing at a time. Discover logical relationships between information.

Term

Piaget's Cognitive Developement Theory -

Stage 4 - Formal Operational Thought

Definition

Logical thinking exteds now to formal or absract material.

 

12 years of age through adulthood

Term
Decalages
Definition
Within stage variations - where one thing may be more understanding the another.
Term
Increment Models
Definition
Pg 12
Term
Behaviorist Traditions
Definition

Learning theories

 

Have a distinguished history in Psychology, having been the most widely accepted class of theories through much of he 20th century. Influenced many thinkers John B Watson ad BF Skiner, being wo examples.

Term
Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
Definition
change in behavior takees place because environmental events are paired with certain behaviors.
Term

Conditioned Stimulis

 

Definition

meanig that it can cause the person to react in the same way in the future.

 

Ex. a dog attacks you may be relucant to approach that dog again

Term
Operant
Definition
An accidental or radom action
Term
Reinforcement
Definition
Rewarding for a certain type of behavior
Term
Social Learning Theories
Definition
How children acquire a cerain personality characeristic or social skills
Term
Modeling
Definition
To display a certain behavior that you would like to see pertayed.
Term
Generalization
Definition
behaviors change in response to specific experiences
Term
Information Processing Theories
Definition
Like learning theories, hse do not hypohesize broad stages, but emphasize incremenal changes in narrow domains.
Term
Multidimesional or system theories
Definition

These explain and decribe the enormous complexity of inerrelated casual process' in developement.

 

Layers and levels of ieracting causes in developement

Term
Bidirectional
Definition
Relationship among causes
Term
Trasactional Theories, relational theories, bioccological theories, epigenetic theories
Definition
Other names for multidimentional Theories
Term
Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory - Proximal Process
Definition
Reciprical inteaction beween and active, evolving biopsychological human organism and the person, objecs and sybols of heir own evironment.
Term
Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory - Distal Process
Definition
Within the orgaism, such as genes.
Term
demand characeristics
Definition
behavioral tendancies that often encourage or discourage certain kinds of reations.
Term
Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory Microsystem
Definition

Early versions of his theory, many levels of environment tha influece a pesons developement.

 

Babies iteract wih family members, bu as they ge older they get inroduced to other microsystems such as school

Term

Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory -

Meso systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition

Relations to microsystems

 

Interactions with teachers, parents

Term

Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory -

Exosystem

 

Definition

Settings that children do not direcly interact but will influence that child reguardless.

 

Ex. a teachers family life

Term
Brofenbrenner Bioecological Theory - Macrosystem
Definition
customs and characer of a large culture that help shape the mycrosystem
Term
Life Span Developement Theory
Definition
Developemet theory that exceeds throughout ones life.
Term
Applying Theory To Pactice
Definition
See page 16
Term
Critical Period
Definition
A cerain time period in which a characeristic is supposed to develop.
Term
Continuity vs discontinuity
Definition
See pages 19 and 20
Term
Universality and Specificity
Definition
See page 20
Term
Ethnic Group
Definition
a certain group that shares the same culture
Term
Racial Group
Definition
A group that shares the same race
Term
Social Economic Status (SES Group)
Definition
a group based on social standings or power.
Term
Age graded changes
Definition
experieces that effect eveyoe about the same age group.
Term
History Graded Changes
Definition
A Life changing event that may effect a entire group of people (Sep. 11, 2001)
Term
Nonnormative changes
Definition
apply specifically to a individuals life, the deah of a family member, winning of a lottery.
Term
Family Life cycle
Definition
combination of universal and specific experieces that will cause developemental change
Term
Sociocultural theories
Definition

race roots back to Lev Vygotsky

cogniive developement may be qualitive different in different cultures

Term
Qualitive and Quantitive Change
Definition
See Page 22
Term
Activity and Passitivity
Definition
See Page 22
Term
Self Organizing
Definition
filering incoming information through their own existing menal consructs and influecing he environmens inputs
Term
Constructivism
Definition

Approach to developmental change ha i rooed back to Piaget.

 

Individuals are not passive receptors of information who acquire knowledge via external information.

Term
Social Consructivism
Definition
This emphasices knowledge held together by your social network.
Term
Applied Developemental Sciece
Definition
Apply findings of developemental psychology to the solution of real world problems.
Term
Clinical - Developmetal Psychology
Definition
Blends develpmenal knowledge with clinical practice.
Term
Noam (1998)
Definition
Argues  for a developemental viewpoint that developmental Psych annd developmental psychopahology need to become basic sciences fo mental health fields.
Term
Names
Definition
See page 24 third paragraph down
Term
Rules of Thumb
Definition
page 24
Term
Developemental Psychopathology
Definition
this offers clinicians a unique perspecive on dysfunctional behavior by iegaing work from many displines, icluding developemental, clinical and abnormal psychology
Term
Protective Factors
Definition
helps to promote a healthy outcome
Term
risk factors
Definition

vulnorabilities and environmental stressors

 

These can interfer with a healthy outcome

Term
Mediating Variables
Definition
poor habits that may effect you later on in life. Such as poor reading skills are inked to poverty and later depression
Term
Moderating Variables
Definition
variables that maybe more genetic such as
Term
Principle of Multifinality
Definition
individuals pathways of development may resul in a wide range of possible outcomes.
Term
Principle of equifiality
Definition

different earlier developmetal pathways can produce simular oucomes

 

Ex. research on ADHD, has led to what we know today.

Term
Prevention Science
Definition

Closely linked to Psychopathology

design and testing prevention and intervention techniques for promoing health development in at risk groups.

 

designing and testing effective intervention strategies

Term

Primary Prevention

How is it defined

Definition
Attempt to forestall the developement of problems by promoting good health and wellness in a general population.
Term
Secondary Prevention
Definition
attempt to reduce the incident of disorders in high risk situations
Term
Teritary Prevention
Definition
rehabilitating individuals with established disorders
Term
Three Levels of Prevention - Universal Prevention
Definition
Categorizing types of prevention: General Population
Term
Three Levels of Prevention - Selective Prevention
Definition
Categorizing types of prevention: Individuals epidemiological risk, ex. low birh rate babies
Term
Three Levels of Prevention - Indicated prevention
Definition
Categorizing types of prevention: individuals who shoe subclinical symptoms, such as children whose behavior issues hat have no diagnosis.
Term
Resilence
Definition
quality that permits developmental success
Term
Protective Factors - Work In two ways
Definition

Improve life course outcomes

opperate more indirectly

Term
What Kind of Prevention Works Best?
Definition

Developmentally appropriate approaches

multidimensional approach to problem prevention

sensitive to culural differences

focus more on general problem solving

srenghened by the use of preoriented strategies

programs that operate over several years.

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