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1 - Authoritarian: Strict Parent.
2 - Permissive: Lenient Parent.
3 - Authoritative: a median between both. |
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| Concrete Stages of Development |
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| Proposed by Piaget - humans develop in specific stages. |
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| Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development |
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Sensorimotor
Birth - 2: Object Permanence.
Preoperational -> Stranger Anxiety.
2 - 7: Pretend Play.
Concrete Operational -> Egocentrism.
7 - 11: Conservation.
Formal Operation -> Mathematical transformations.
12 - Adulthood: Abstract logic/Potential for mature, moral reasoning. |
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| Proposed by Vygotsky - children grow at a continuous rate - idea of Scaffolding: caretakers are pulling child to next level. |
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| Two Kinds of Intelligence |
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Crystallized: "Fact-based" info.
Fluid: Perceptual speed. After age 32, fluid will decrease rapidly. |
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| Person can't remember again before 3 years old - mind operating to do other things, won't remember simple events. |
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Secure: child understands parent will always be there and won't abandon child; will not freak when parent leaves.
Insecure: child does not feel parent is always there for them; abandonment issues; child will freak if parent leaves. |
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| Cross-Sectional Design (definition and problems) |
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Definition
Research method that involves observing a population, or a sample, of all ages during a "defined time."
Problems? Health (food/health care)
Technology
Cultural Differences
Education
War |
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| Longitudinal Design (definition and problems) |
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Definition
Research method that involves observations of the same subjects over a long period of time.
Problems? Practice effects. |
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Definition
| Involuntary process of the removal of neurons that are no longer used or useful for the brain. |
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| An outside agent that effects the growing fetus. Ex: alcohol, smoking, malnutrition. |
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Physical/Psychological malformations - Language Development, Motor Skills, Socially Awkward.
Tobacco Use: Low Birth Weight, Memory/Motor deficits.
Prescriptions: Thalidomide - low birth weight. |
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| Universal Physical Development |
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Definition
| Plays a role in Nature - "pre-programmed development." |
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| curiosity, sentence structure, matching patterns. |
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| Interacting with child, using correct vocabulary, reading. |
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| Memory, hearing, motor skills, physical ability, sensory ability, reaction time, fertility (women). |
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| Three Degenerative Diseases |
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| How many brain cells per minute are being produced in Prenatal Development? |
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| When is fastest period of growth? |
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| 12. What cognitive developments accompany the development of the frontal lobe? |
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Definition
| Inhibition, abstract logic/reason. |
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