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| continual progression from beginning of life to the end |
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| growth as occurring in identifiable stages each with distinct problems & characteristics |
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| variable can be changed "indendently" of other factors; "cause" |
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| this variable "depends" on what happens to subjects in the experiment; "effect" |
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| studying the same individuals over a "long" period of time |
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| comparison of people at various ages |
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| combination of longitudinal and cross sectinal designs; starts with cross sectional studies of different ages then after some time, the same individuals are tested again |
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| a mathematical statistic that indicates whether 2 variables are related to each other |
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| one variable changes in the same direction as another variable changes |
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| when 2 variables are inversely related; when one goes up, the other goes down |
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| when change in one variable causes a change in another |
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| changes due to a subject's time of birth or generation but not actually to "age" |
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| interprets human behavior and development in terms of intrinnnnnnsic drives and motives, may of which are unconscious |
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| a term used in operant conditioning to explain anything that "increases" a behavior |
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| a term used in operant condtioning to explain anything that "decreases" a behavior |
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| ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT (ZPD) |
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| range of skills that can be used without assistance versus what can be obtained with help |
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