UNL PSYC 289 Exam 1 Questions With
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What is lifespan development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a pattern of change
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involving growth and decline, beginning at conception and lasting until death
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What is the "discontinuity" vs. "continuity" debate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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discontinuity: development happens in distinct stages
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continuity: development is continuous
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What is the universal vs. context-specific development debate? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-focuses on whether the same general path is followed by all people
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or is fundamentally different because of the sociocultural context
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age-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-things that occur at same age
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cross culturally (ex. puberty)
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history-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-biological and environmental
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influences associated with a particular historical moment
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nonnormative influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-events that are irregular: they
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happen to just one person or a few people and do not follow a predictable
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timetable
, psychodynamic theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Freudian theory that unconscious
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forces determine behavior
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psychosocial theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Erikson's proposal that personality
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development is determined by the interaction of an internal maturational plan
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and external societal demands; covers lifespan
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social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bandura's view of human
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development; emphasizes interaction | |
Cognitive Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-focuses on process that allow people to
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know, understand, and think about the world (Piaget)
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sociocultural theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Vygotsky's theory of how contextual
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factors affect children's development
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Ethological Theory (ethology) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study of adaptive value of
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behavior and its evolutionary history
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critical period: time in development where experience is necessary
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sensitive period: if a certain experience happens during a specific time a behavior
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is more likely to develop, but you can still develop it later
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Ecological Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bronfenbrenner's theory that human
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development is shaped by five interrelated systems in the social environment
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What is lifespan development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a pattern of change
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involving growth and decline, beginning at conception and lasting until death
| | | | | | | | | |
What is the "discontinuity" vs. "continuity" debate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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discontinuity: development happens in distinct stages
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continuity: development is continuous
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What is the universal vs. context-specific development debate? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-focuses on whether the same general path is followed by all people
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or is fundamentally different because of the sociocultural context
| | | | | | | |
age-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-things that occur at same age
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cross culturally (ex. puberty)
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history-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-biological and environmental
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influences associated with a particular historical moment
| | | | | |
nonnormative influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-events that are irregular: they
| | | | | | | | |
happen to just one person or a few people and do not follow a predictable
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
timetable
, psychodynamic theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Freudian theory that unconscious
| | | | | | |
forces determine behavior
| | |
psychosocial theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Erikson's proposal that personality
| | | | | | | |
development is determined by the interaction of an internal maturational plan
| | | | | | | | | | |
and external societal demands; covers lifespan
| | | | |
social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bandura's view of human
| | | | | | | | |
development; emphasizes interaction | |
Cognitive Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-focuses on process that allow people to
| | | | | | | | | |
know, understand, and think about the world (Piaget)
| | | | | | | |
sociocultural theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Vygotsky's theory of how contextual
| | | | | | | |
factors affect children's development
| | | |
Ethological Theory (ethology) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study of adaptive value of
| | | | | | | | | |
behavior and its evolutionary history
| | | | |
critical period: time in development where experience is necessary
| | | | | | | | |
sensitive period: if a certain experience happens during a specific time a behavior
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is more likely to develop, but you can still develop it later
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Ecological Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bronfenbrenner's theory that human
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development is shaped by five interrelated systems in the social environment
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