What are some examples of environmental influences?

• daycare
• educational games
• parents readying to child regularly

What are some examples of biological influences?

• testosterone levels
• stage of development
• mental illnesses/diseases

define DISCONTINUITY

give some examples of CONTINUITY

• increase in attention span
• increast in amount of information stored in short term memory
• the gain of knowledge/what you learn

• stages of development
• growth spurt

For Freud:

1. What was his position on the nature/nurture issue?
2. What was is position on the continuity/discontinuity issue?
3. What was the major concept of his theory?

1. nature
2. discontinuous
3. id, ego, and superego are basic components of personality

For Erikson:

•  What was his position on the nature/nurture issue?
• What was his position on the continuity/discontinuity issue?
• What was the major concept of his theory?

• both nurture and nature
• discontinuous
• each stage is characterized by a developmental crisis

For Skinner:

1. What was his position for the nature/nurture issue?
2. What was his position for the continuity/discontinuity issue?
3. What was the major concept of his theory?

1. nurture
2. continuous
3. studied operant conditioning

For Bandura:

1. What was his position on the nature/nurture issue?
2. What was his position on the continuity/discontinuity issue?
3. What was the major concept of his theory?

1. nurture
2. continuous
3. major concept was observational learning

For Piaget:

1. What was his position on the nature/nurture issue?
2. What was his position on the continuous/discontinuous issue?

1. both nature and nurture
2. discontinuous

1. oral
2. anal
3. phallic
4. latency
5. genital

1. trust vs. mistrust
2. autonomy vs. shame/doubt
3. initiative vs. guilt
4. industry vs. inferiority
5. identity vs. isolation
6. generativity vs. stagnation
7. ego integrity vs. despair

define DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE

type of learning studied by Watson

Is the following situation an example of continuity or discontinuity:

A person goes through stages to complete development.

Is the following situation an example of continuity or discontinuity:

We, as people, are always learning and adapting which contribues to our cognitive growth.

Is the following situation an example of nature or nurture:

Children whose parents read to them nightly have a higher vocabulary and will be smarter than children whose parents don't read to them every night.

Is the following situation and example of nature or nurture:

A baby that is born naturally curious and habituates quickly to stimuli will be smarter than the baby who doesn't habituate to simuli as quickly.

a consequence that weakens a response; something that makes an action less likey to happen

1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational
3. concrete operations
4. formal operations