WSU-Human Development Exam 1 fully solved & updated

Physical Development - answer-Body maturation, including body size, proportion, appearance, health, and perceptual abilities. cognitive development - answer-the maturation of thought processes and the tools we use to obtain knowledge continuous - answer-growing slowly discontinuous - answer-growing in spurts freud - answer-behaviour is driven by unconscious impulses that we cant control freud stages - answer-stages focused on different parts of the body, making stimulation to those parts a source of pleasure erikson - answer-focused on the role of the social world, society, and cultural in shaping development erikson stages - answer-8- each stage represents a unique task watson - answer-behaviorism- examine behaviors that can be observed and that it is influenced by the physical and social environment classical condition - answer-pavlov- the baby and the forehead finger. a form of learning in which the person comes to associate environment stimuli w physiological operant conditioning - answer-skinner-repeat behavior that have pleasant outcome and stop behavior with unpleasant outcomes social learning theory - answer-Albert Bandura- role of thought and emotions as contributors to development. ng bad about an action and not doing it again. observational learning - answer-Albert Bandura- we learn by watching others reciprocal determinism - answer-individuals and the environment interact with each other . individuals as active in their development cognitive theory - answer-the role of thought on behavior piagets cognitive theory - answer-active explorers of our world, learning by interacting with the world around us. prigets cognitive theory stages - answer-4 sensorimotor preoperational concrete operational formal operational information processing theory - answer-views thinking as information processing(computer) vygotsky sociocultural theory - answer-culture is transmitted from one generation to the next . interaction with more mature peers bronferbrenners - answer-micro-family meso-family vs school exo-setting macro-culture chro-time ethology - answer-study of the evolutionary history of behavior and its survival value evolutionary development theory - answer-proposes that behavioral patterns in child and adult development are present because they help us survive, reproduce, or acquire resources that support survival and reproduction self-report measures - answer-interviews and questionnaires. in person, phone, or internet open-ended interview - answer-flexible. begins with a question and then falls up with a question. per,ts participation to explain thought in their own way structured interview - answer-less flexible. same questions to everyone Naturalists observation - answer-observe, record behavior in natural real-world setting structured observation - answer-recorded behavior in a cultural environment case study - answer-gathering info from many vations, interviews, conversations, family and peers correlation research - answer-examine relations among measured characteristic, behaviors, and events experiment research - answer-procedure that use control to determine causal relationships among factors knows as variables dependent - answer-manipulated systematically by the researcher during experiment independent variable - answer-expected to change ? cross-sectional research - answer-comparing groups of people of different ages at one time longitudinal research - answer-a group of people studied at many points in time sequential research - answer-info about age, cohort, age-related change informed consent - answer-they're informed voluntariness - answer-people have the right to conceal their identity on all information and reports obtained in the course of reacher child-centered - answer-kids taking learning into their own hands academically centered programmed - answer-teacher-directed programs associated with some problem how does culture influence the education environment? - answer-efe children learn through attendshool. labor work. little adult-child interaction