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Lifespan Development - ✔✔ examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior throughout the lifespan 4 domains of development - ✔✔ physical, cognitive, personality, social Age & range differences - ✔✔ prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood quantitative - ✔✔ changes in number or amount qualitative - ✔✔ changes in kind, structure or organization theor y - ✔✔ broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of interest psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔ Freud; focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior. id, ego, and superego Id - ✔✔ pleasure principle Ego - ✔✔ reality principle superego - ✔✔ follows rules of society Freudian Psychosexual stages - ✔✔ oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital psychosocial theory - ✔✔ Erikson; development occurs through changes in interactions with and understanding of others behavioral theory - ✔✔ John b. Watson & B.F. Skinner; focus on observable behavior and outside environmental stimuli, strengthened or weakened by negative or positive consequences Behavioral - ✔✔ Albert Bandura & colleagues; behavior is learned through observ ation Cognitive perspective - ✔✔ Jean Piaget; focus on processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world, classical conditioning contextual perspective - ✔✔ Urie Bronfenbrenner; focus on relationships between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds Sociocultural perspective - ✔✔ Lev Vygotsky; as children play and cooperate with others, they learn wha t is important in their society and advance cognitively in their understanding of the world, zone of proximal development Longitudinal studies - ✔✔ measures individual change cross -sectional studies - ✔✔ measures people of different ages at same point in t ime sequential studies - ✔✔ complex combination of cross sectional and longitudinal prenatal testing - ✔✔ amniocentesis, CVS embryoscopy, FBS, sonoembrology, sonogram, ultrasound sonography stages of prenatal development - ✔✔ germinal, embryonic, fetal germinal stage - ✔✔ fertilization (2 weeks) egg fertilization