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Psychology 241
Final Exam Unit 1
Question | Answer |
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Normative age graded influences | Similar for members in a particular group EX: puberty |
3 domains of psychology | Socioemotional Cognitive Physical |
Normative history- graded influences | Similar for members of a certain generation EX: 9/11 |
Paul Baltes key principles: (6) | Development is: lifelong multidimensional multidirectional plastic multidisciplinary contextual |
Non-normative influences | have a major impact on individuals life EX: winning the lottery |
3 developmental issues | nature-nurture stability-change continuity-discontinuity |
Classical conditioning | Pavlov and the dog |
Operant conditioning | Skinner and his box with birds |
Piaget stages: | Sensorimotor Pre-Operational Concrete Operational Formal Operational |
Sensorimotor | Birth-two years constructs an understanding of the world with both sensory experiences (seeing and hearing) and physical motor actions |
Preoperational | 2-7 years (preschool) Represent the world with words, images, and drawings |
Concrete Operational | 7-11 Perform operations that involve objects and they can reason logically about specific or concrete examples. They can not however imagine the steps needed to complete a algebraic equation |
Formal Operational | 11--> think in abstract and logical terms |
Cohorts | Generational differences |
3 stages of prenatal development | germinal embryonic fetal |
Teratogens | Harmful, can hurt the fetus, embryonic period is when this can harm the baby |