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| What are 4 major themes/ issues of developmental psychology? |
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Childhood matters in development
Practical benefits
Understand adult behavior
Address theoretical issues |
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| Continuous Developmental Growth |
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no distinct stages
smooth growth |
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| Discontinuous Developmental Growth |
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| has distinct stages of development |
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| How did Medival people view children? |
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Had a clear awareness of them as vunerable beings
Either thought of them as devils or angels |
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| During the Reformation, who belived children were evil and had to be tamed? |
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| During the Enlightenment period, who believed children were blank slates that others had to write on? |
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| What did Rossaeu believe? |
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| Children were "noble savages" naturally given a sense of right and wrong with a plan for growth |
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| emphasized natural selection and survival of the fittest |
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| Believed in the normative approach (measures behavior by the average) |
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Studied intelligence
Created Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale |
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Understood children's understanding develops through stages
Nature and nurture equal |
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| Based on individual differences |
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| Different beliefs of Behaviorism |
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classical conditioning
operant conditioning
social learning theory |
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Uses reinforcement and punishment but adds in observational learning
Bandura |
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| Scientist associated with Operant Conditioning |
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| Uses reinforcement and punishment to curb behavior |
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works with stimuluses and responses to curb behavior
ex- Pavlovs Dog |
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Scientist associated with classical conditioning
Conducted Little Albert experiment |
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discusses imprinting and critical periods
concerned with adaptive behavior and its evolutionary history |
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Children are born with innate instincts
They are given a head start |
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| Ecological Systems Theory |
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| views the child as developing within a complex system of relationships with the environment |
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Came up with the biological model
Believed in the Ecological Systems Theory |
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| Scientist who believed children developed through 4 stages |
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| Studied how culture is transmitted through generations |
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| Child's mind, body, physical and social world form a system that guides mastery of new skills |
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