Developmental Psych

multidisciplinary study of how people change and remain the same over time.

degree to which genetic or hereditary influences (nature) and experiential or environmental influences (nurture) determine the kind of person you are.

weather development represents a smooth progression throughout the life span or abrupt shifts

weather development follows one path or several

• Biological
• Psychological
• Sociocultural
• Life cycle

development is determined by how well people resolve conflict at different ages

Erik Erikson - psychosocial theory

Each pyschosocial strength has its own special period of particular importance (Erikson's 8 stages)

BF Skinner - consequences of a behavior determine weather a behavior is repeated in the future

consequence that increases the future liklihood of the behavior that it follows

consequence that decreases future liklihood of the behavior that it follows

rewarding by taking away something unpleasant

learning by watching how others behave

children try to make sense of their surroundings

proposing that human cognition consists of a mental hardware and software

human development inseparable from environmental contexts in which a person develops

ways in which different generations experience the different framworks of development in their respective historical concepts

watching people and recording what they do or say

people are observed as they behave in a real life situation

researcher creates a setting that is likely to elicit the behavior of interest

people's answers to questions about the topic of interest

extent to which a measure provides a consistent index of a characteristic

weather something really measures what you want it to measure

broad groups of people of interest

small subset of population of interest

looking at relations b/t variables as they exist naturally in the world

an expression of the strength and direction of a realtion b/t two variables

factor being manipulated

behavior being observed