Human Growth and Development Class Notes

The scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span (conception to death). Based on the idea that every portion of the lifespan is influenced by earlier events and will in turn affect later events.

processes which are biologically programmed, interaction with the environment, aggression to regression.

Provides organized account of development, demonstrates interconnections between earlier and later events, explains mechanisms responsible for development, specifies biological, psychological, and environmental factors that shape an individual's development.

<p>Development is lifelong, involves both gain and loss (multidirectional), the relative influences of biology and culture shift over the lifespan, involves a changing allocation of resources (selection), is modifiable (plasticity), and is influenced by historical and cultural context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Describe behavior, explain behavior, predict behavior, modify behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>progress in understanding, building on previous knowledge, advances in technology, changes in cultural attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantitative (change in number, amount, frequency) and qualitative (change in kind, structure, organization).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Growth of body/brain and change/stability in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change/stability in mental abilities including learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change/stability in emotions, personality, and social relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prenatal, infant and toddler, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood, death and dying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prenatal (conception to birth), infant and toddler (0-3), early childhood (3-6), middle childhood (6-11), adolescence (11-20), young adulthood (20-40), middle adulthood (40-65), late adulthood (65+), death and dying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heredity, environment, maturation, milestones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More or less automatic unfolding of biological potential in a set, irreversible sequence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More or less permanent modification in behavior that results from the individual's experience in the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific time when a given event, or its absence, has a great impact on development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Time in development when a person is particularly responsive to certain kinds of experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proceeds by the interaction of biological, environmental, and psychological forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Type of research made up of two key issues: how participants will be chosen (sampling) and how data will be collected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Series of steps that allow one to clearly show what was studied, how it was studied, and what conclusions were drawn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Descriptive studies, manipulative experiments, naturalistic experiments, time-variable experiments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Right to informed consent, avoidance of deception, right to privacy and confidentiality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concerned with observable behaviors, sees development as continuous and emphasizes quantitative changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes observed behavior as a predictable response to experience, with emphasis on learning through stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process of behavior modification by which a subject learns to respond to a neutral stimulus paired with an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism will repeat a response that has been reinforced and suppress a response that has been punished.</p> Signup and view all the answers