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GRE Psychology - Development
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Psychology
Graduate
10/13/2011

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germinal stage
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2 weeks, 64 cells, implantation in uterus
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embryonic stage
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up to second month, genetalia and organ formation
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fetal stage
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3rd month until birth. movement ("quickening")
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5 reflexes
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sucking, head turning, Moro, Babinski, Palmar
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Adaptation
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happens through assilimation
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Asssimilation
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fitting new info into existing schemas
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Accomodation
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modification of cognitive schematas to accomodate for new ideas
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sensorimotor stage
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0-2 circular motions, object permanence, representation
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preoperational
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2-7 centration, egocentrism, no conservation
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concrete operational stage
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7-12 conservation, perspective of others, concrete realtionships (math)
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formal operations stage
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12+ able to think like a scientist, abstract thought, logic, ratios, values
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R. Gelman
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showed that Piaget may have underestimated preschoolers who can deal with issues such as 'quantity' in small sets.
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Erikson's stages
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trust v mistrust, autonomy v shame and doubt, initiative v guilt, industry v inferiority, identity v role confusion, intimacy v isolation, productivity v stagnation, ego integrity v despair
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trust v mistrust
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0-18m resolution=trust
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autonomy v shame and doubt
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18m-3 resolution=independence
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initiative v guilt
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3-6 resolution=purpose
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industry v inferiority
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6-puberty resolution= competency
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identity v role confusion
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teens resolution= sense of self
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intimacy v isolation
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y adults. resolution=love
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productivity v stagnation
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adulthood. resolution=productivity and caring
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ego integrity v despair
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old age. resolution=wisdom
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Freud
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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
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Kohlberg
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Moral development: preconventional, conventional and postconventional stages
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preconventional stage
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avoid punishment, seek rewards
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conventional stage
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gain apporoval, follow law and authority
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postconventional stage
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beyond laws, rights and social welfare, abstract ethical principles.
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Gillian
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critisized Kohlberg's male bias. Females are driven by compassion, relationships and social responsibility.
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sex-typed behaviors
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low in prebubescence, high in young adulthood and low in later life
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Thomas and Chess
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temperament (easy, slow to warm up, difficult)
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Wolff
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used spectograms to study crying. Three types of crying (basic cry, the angry cry, and the pain cry) Noted even nonparent adults respond with heart-rate accelerations.
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social smile
Definition
at first almost any face will elicit a smile, at about five months only familiar faces elicit smiles.
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Harlow
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social isolation, contact comfort, learning to learn
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Bowlby
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pre-attachment, at 3 m discriminates faces, 6 m seeks out mother, 9-12 m stranger anxiety, 12-24 m separation anxiety, 24 m ....able to separate.
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Baumrind
Definition
Parenting styles 1. Authorotative 2. Authoratarian 3. Permissive
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Watson
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imitation, famous for "twelve infants" quotation, and "Little Albert" experiment.
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Gessel
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emphasized maturational aspects of development, 'blueprint for development'
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Stanley Hall
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father of developmental psychology, founder of the APA (Harvard)
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Locke
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tabula rasa - infants are blank slates
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Rousseau
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development would unfold without the help of society
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Terman
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longitudinal studies with gifted children
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Tyron
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genetic basis of maze running ability
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The Heinz Dilemma
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a test to determine the moral level of an individual - a series of moral dilemmas. (man named Heinz whose wife is dying and is faced with having to steal medication)
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Kohlberg's gender stages
Definition
gender labeling (2-3), gender stability (3-4), gender consistency (4-7)
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