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The action possibilities that are available to a person defending on their motor skills.
(sliding down a slant rather than walking, etc.) |
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| Mary Ainsworth--designer of the "strange situation" experiment |
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| Inserting a needle through the abdominal wall to obtain fluid that contains information about the baby. Results take longer than Chorionic villus sampling. |
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Appearance (color)
Pulse (heart rate)
Grimace (reflex)
Activity (muscle tone)
Respiration (breathing) |
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| The strong tie to people who are closest to us in our families; Bowlby says it is ethological--meaning it develops to protect us. |
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| Albert Bandura--proponent of Social-Learning Theory, which says we as infants develop our skills primarily through modeling and social concepts. Opposite of Behaviorism. |
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| The idea that children learn through the responses to their actions, through either classical or operant conditioning. Opposite of social learning. |
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John Bowlby. Developer of the "ethological theory of attachment", which says we are attached to those close to us in order to secure our own survival.
Develops in four phases:
Preattachment--children like people but no one specific.
Attachment in the Making--developing a sense of parental trust.
Clear-cut attachment--children experience separation anxiety.
Reciprocal relationship--children understand that they can be left alone. |
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| Brain Scanning/Imaging technology |
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fMRI--magnetism
PET--X-rays |
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| Cause/Effect relationships |
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| Researched in experiments, but cannot be applied to correlational studies. |
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Classical: Pavlov, Stimulus before
Operant: Consequences, Stimulus after |
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| Continuity vs. Discontinuity |
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| Does development happen gradually over time, or in distinct stages? |
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