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This document contains comprehensive exam material for the course Human Growth and Development. It includes a wide range of key terms, definitions, and major theoretical concepts required for test preparation. Topics span the entire lifespan—from infancy to late adulthood—and cover areas such as developmental theories, biological and cognitive growth, social influences, and major psychological perspectives. Designed to help students prepare efficiently for exams, this file serves as a full glossary-style reference covering all essential concepts in developmental psychology.

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Human Growth and Development ch 1-6
Domains of Development -
☑️ Physical - body size appearance, system & motor capabilities
Cognitive - intellectual abilities: attention, memory, imagination, creativity & language
Emotional (Social) - Self understanding, knowledge about others, friends, intimate relationships,
morals, emotional expression & communication

Development is CONTINUOUS -
☑️ process of gradually building upon the same skills that were there to begin with

Development is DISCONTINUOUS -
☑️ process of responding to the world develop at different times

Stage -
☑️ change in thinking/feeling/behaving that characterizes a specific period of development

Binet & Simon -
☑️ Fathers of the Testing Movement - tested aptitude & intelligence

Freud -
☑️ *Father of the Psychoanalytic Movement
*Said children go through stages where they confront conlicts between social & biological drives.
Resolution of these conflicts determines psychological growth

Psychosexual Theory -
☑️ parents ability to control childrens sexual & aggressive drives for their healthy personal
development

Erikson -
☑️ *Neo freudian
*Expanded psychosocial theory which says there are specific tasks & tasks to be mastered
*1st to have a lifespan focus

Pavlov -
☑️ *Father of Behaviorism
*Behaviorism - stimuli & response through conditioning

Classical Conditioning -
☑️ certain responses gained from stimulus with passive individuals (dogs)

Skinner (Operant Conditioning) -
☑️ responses through reinforcement or punishment

Behavior Modification -
☑️ combine conditioning and modeling to decrease negative behavior and increase positive
behaviors (Widely used)

Bandura (Social Learning Theory) -
☑️ Obersvational learning or role model learning. Renamed Social Cognitive Theory

, Paiget (Cognitive-Developmental Theory) -
☑️ *Children learn by exploring and manipulating their world
*Paiget underestimated small childrens abilities
*Discounts influence of culture on development
*Doesn't allow for cognitive changes after adolescence

Information Processing (recent theory) -
☑️ *Children are sense makers who modify their own thinking based on enviromental
demands. The mind is a symbol manipulating system, learning is a continuous process
*Individuals make sense of their own thinking
*Continuous view of ablility

Ethology -
☑️ the adaptive or survival value and it's evolutionary history

Imprinting -
☑️ *Occurs early at a critical period
*Critical period - limited time period when certain behaviors must be aquired when enviromental
conditions are met
*Sensitive period - time when skills are easily attained but can be learned later

Evolutionary Developmental Psychology -
☑️ Studies the adaptive value species wide and how they change with age

Vygotsky (Socio-Cultural Theory) -
☑️ people think and behave the way they do because of community peers and adults who
are more advanced

Bronfenbrenner (Ecological Systems Theory) -
☑️ Children develop within multiple levels of the environment (home, school, cultural
values)

Genotype -
☑️ genetic factors that affect characteristcs

Phenotype -
☑️ physical expression that is expressed but not all that could have been

Chromosomes -
☑️ *Rod shaped
*Store/transmit genetic information

DNA -
☑️ chemical foundation of genetic makeup

Gene -
☑️ segment of DNA along a chromosome

Gamates -
☑️ sex cells (ovum/sperm)

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