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| Cognitive/perceptual, emotional, personality forces |
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| Learning determines our behavior |
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| B.F. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning |
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The consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be repeated
reinforcement increases the chance that a behavior will be repeated
A punishment decreases the chance that a behavior will be repeated |
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Observational learning, or imitation
People learn by watching others
Imitation more likely if (observed person is viewed as cool, or if their is a reward) |
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| Cognitive-Developmental Theory |
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| Stresses development of thought processes |
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Piaget's 1st stage
Sensorimotor Stage |
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(birth to 2 years)
Sensation/movement |
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Piaget's 2nd stage
Preoperational stage |
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(2 to 7 years)
Symbols and self-centered |
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Piaget's 3rd stage
Concrete operational stage |
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7 years to early adolescence
"Now" logic
Not hypothetical |
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| people/objects in immediate environment |
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| Social, environmental and governmental forces |
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| many factors influence development |
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| Selective Optimization perspective |
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| choices that determine/regulate development and aging |
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| different areas of development grow and decline at the same time |
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| skllls can be developed throughout life |
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| Biological, psychological, social, and lifecycle changes must be considered |
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| reducing involvement with one goal to concentrate on another |
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| reducing involvement because of lack of resources or abilities |
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| tests in the same time period several subjects |
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| combo of longit. and cross-sec. studies |
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When one allele does not dominate another completely
produce intermediate variation of the characteristic |
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| that genes and environment interact reflects interplay |
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| Growth from head to spine |
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| Growth from areas close to the body to farthest from body |
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| drugs, diseases, or environmental hazards causing abnormal prenatal development |
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1. Heart rate 2. Respiration
3. Muscle tone 4. Reflexes
5. Skin tone |
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| Environmental effect of newborn's temperament |
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| Parental characteristics influences temperament |
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| Instead of simple maturation, motor development involves many distinct skills |
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| mastery of component skills |
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| grasping, holding, and manipulating objects |
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| simultaneously available multimodal sensory information (e.g., sight, sound, touch) |
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naïve understanding of the relationship between mind and behavior
3 phases |
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