Lifespan Development Chapter 1 Flashcards

Procedures that combine conditioning and modeling to eliminate undesirable behaviors and increase desirable responses.

Directly observable events and behavior development through conditioning.

<p>Temporal changes in environments that affect development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An interview method where researchers use a flexible, conversational style.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To obtain a complete picture of one individual's psychological functioning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That children actively construct knowledge through manipulation and exploration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural-historical influences that affect research findings from specific groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that development gradually adds more of the same types of skills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A number ranging from +1 to -1 that describes the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research design that examines relationships without altering experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research design where groups of different ages are studied at the same point in time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The variable expected to be influenced by the independent variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An investigation area that studies the relationship between brain changes and cognitive processing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An interdisciplinary field studying all changes humans experience throughout their lifespan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that new ways of understanding emerge at specific times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach viewing development as influenced by complex relationships with the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method to understand the unique values and social processes of a culture through participant observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The adaptive or survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach seeking to understand the adaptive value of cognitive and social competencies with age.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social settings that affect experiences in immediate settings but do not contain the developing person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research method where participants are randomly assigned to treatment conditions to study the effects of manipulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developmental influences unique to a specific historical era.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The variable expected to cause changes in another variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach viewing the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A dynamic systems approach assuming development is lifelong and affected by multiple forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research design studying participants repeatedly over time to note changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural values, laws, customs, and resources influencing experiences within the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The connections between a person's microsystems or immediate settings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The innermost level of the environment consisting of immediate surroundings and interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research method where the researcher observes behavior in natural environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disagreement about whether genetic or environmental factors are more influential.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Irregular influences that affect only a few individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach that computes age-related averages to represent typical development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach emphasizing conflict resolution between biological drives and social expectations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freud's theory emphasizing the management of sexual and aggressive drives in early years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Erikson's theory emphasizing unique personality development across life stages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An evenhanded procedure for assigning participants to treatment conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to adapt effectively in the face of developmental threats.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A time optimal for certain capacities to emerge, making individuals responsive to influences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developmental designs combining longitudinal and cross-sectional methods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach emphasizing the role of modeling and observational learning in behavior development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vygotsky's theory focusing on cultural acquisition through social interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A qualitative change in thinking, feeling, and behaving at a specific development period.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An interview method in which each participant is asked the same questions in the same way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method setting up a laboratory situation to evoke specific behaviors for observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers