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A field of study devoted to understanding all aspects of human constancy and change from conception through adolescence

An interdisciplinar field devoted to the study of all changes we experence throughout the lifespan

An orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior

A view that regards development as a cumulative process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with

a view of development as a process in which new ways of nderstanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times

a qualitative change in thinking feeling and behaing that characterizes a specific period of development

unique combination of personals and environmental circumstances that can result in markedly diferent paths of change

debate among theorists about whether genetic or environmental factors are more important in development

the ability to adapt effecively in the face of threats to development

locke's view of the chils as a "blank slate" whose character is shaped entirely by experience

Freud's view of personality development, in which children move through a series of stages in which they cofront conflcits between biological drives and social expectations. The way these conflcits are resolved determines psychological adjustment

freud's theory, which emphasizes that how parents manage childrens sexual and aggresive drives in the first few years of life in crucial for healthy personality development

ericksons theory which emphasizes that at each Freudian stage, individuals not only develop a unique personalitybut also acquire attitudes and skills that help them become active, contributing members of their society

procedures that combine conditioning and modeling to eliminate undesirable responses

An approach introduced by Piaget that views children as actively constructing knowledge as they manipulate and explore their world and that regards cognitive development as taking place in stages

an approach that views the human mind as a symbol manipulating system through which information flows and that regards cognitive development as a continious process

An area of investigation that brings together researches from psychology biology neuroscience and medicine to study the relationship etween changes in the brain and the developing childs cognitive processing and behavior patterns

An approach concerned with the adaptive or survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history

A time that is optimal for certain capacities to emerge and in which the individual is especially responsive to environmental influences

An approach hat seeks to understand the adaptive value of species-wide cognitive emotional and social competencies as those competencies change with age

Vygotsky's theory in which children acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a communitys culture through cooperative dialogues with more knowledgable members of their society

bronfenbrenners approach whcih vies the child as developing within a complex system of relationships affected bymultiple levels of the surrounding environment from immediate settings of family and school to broad cultural values and program

A method in which the researcher attempts to understand an individual child by combining interview data, observations, and sometimes test scores

a method in whcih the researcher attempts to understand the unique values and social processes of a culture or a disctinct social group through participant observation - living with its members and takin field notes over an extended period of time

A research design in whcih the researcher gathers information on individuals without altering particpants experiences and then examines relationships between variables. Does not permit referencesabout cause and effect

A number ranging from +100 to -100 that describes the strength and direction of the relationships between two enables

A research design in which the investigator randomly assigns participations to treatment conditions. Permits inferences about cause and effect

the variable the researcher expects to cause changes in another variable in an experiment

the variable the investigator expects to be influenced by the independent variable in an experiment

A research design in which groups of people differing in age are studied at the same point in time

A research design in which several similar cross sectional or longitudinal studies (Calles sequences) are conduced at varying times

A research design in which investigators present children with novel task and follow their mastery over a series of closely spaced sessions