Developmental Psychology: Orientation To Lifespan Development

Developmental Psychology

Chapter 1

1 Orientation to Lifespan Development
A. Life span development- Field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan. Scientific study of thinking, behavior, physical, cognitive, social, and personality development.
1. Life span goes from conception to death
2. Life span development focuses on human development and examines growth and change in people
3. Regardless of approach, the theorist takes all developmentalists new development as a continuing process throughout a life span
2. Characterizing Lifespan- The scope of the field or study
A. Physical development- Development involving ways that the enduring characteristics
Macrosystem- Represents larger culture influences on a person.
D. Chronosystem- Underlies each of the other systems
5. Developmental Diversity A. Is about culture and cohort
1. Cohort- Means you were born in a certain time period like history, graded influences, age graded influences, socioculture, graded influences, or nonnormalitive life events.
6. Key Issues- Nature versus Nurture of a Lifespan
A. Nature is genetics, biological, and physical, or innate. Nature refers to traits, abilities, and capacities that are inherited from one’s parents.
B. Nurture is about environment or learning and how it influences that shape behavior. In nature and Nurture there is always continuous and discontinuous change. Continuous change is gradual development and discontinuous change occurs in steps
C. Maturation falls into Nature versus Nurture because it is biological Readiness. If your body is not ready to do something it will not happen.
7. Language- Speaking Natisist versus Behaviorist, Skinner is a behaviorist, Chomsky is Natisits Learning- Relatively permanent change in behavior Temperament- Biological Disposition Innate- Biological Genetics Growth- Increase in size of organism, and of its parts
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Eriksson- Studied under Freud and used the psychosexual theory. There were 8 crises. The Psychosocial development dealt with changes in our interactions with understanding of one another as members of a society.
C. Evolutionary Perspective- Seeks to identify behavior that results from genetic inheritance. This is ecological theory or Evolution theory. The theorist is Bronferbrenner
9. Behavioral Perspective- Bearing theory which is a relatively permanent change in behavior
1. People in Behavioral Perspectives
A. John Watson- Father of behaviorism and also used classical conditioning. B. Pavlov- used classical conditioning
C. B.F. Skinner- Used reinforcement Operant Conditioning also called the SR Theory 2. Social Cognitive Learning Theory- Bandura, same as the SR Theory, We don’t react the same way to same stimulus, watched someone else do it 3. Cognitive Theory- Part that can’t be seen. Approach that focuses on process that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world A. Paget Theory- 4 Stages used infor processing like computer sensory memory, Short term memory, long term memory B. Vygosky Theory- Learns as You interact
10. Research Methods
1. Theory- General statement that allows you to predict and understand