Alicia Chen Chapter 4: Developing Through the Lifespan Introduction • developmental psychologists – study physical‚ cognitive‚ and social changes throughout the lifespan; discern commonalities • developmental psychology focuses on 3 issues: o Nature/nurture: how do genetic inheritance and experience influence development? o Continuity/stages: is development a gradual‚ continuous process‚ or a sequence of separate stages o Stability/change: do our early personality
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Development 1. What is habituation? How is it used to study infant abilities? 2. At birth‚ babies have the abilities to 1) recognize patterns‚ 2) respond to their mother’s voices‚ 3) learn. We saw three videos illustrating the research behind these claims. What was the evidence that babies can learn events? 3. What is a cross-sectional study? What is a longitudinal study? What is a cohort? 4. What emotions are found in babies at birth? What emotions appear between 2-4 months?
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Compare and Contrast Two Educators There has been several psychologists that have performed intensive research as it relates to the educational development of individuals. However‚ research that was produced by two of the most famous psychologists (Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky) are known as remarkable. Piaget and Vygotsky researched theories are comparable‚ needless to say‚ there is also a noticeable difference in their approach to developmental psychology and education. The purpose of this paper
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Chapter 7 Six characteristics of strong families - Being committed - Showing appreciation - Communication - Spending time - Sharing values and beliefs - Coping with stress Erikson – 3 stages (I) Early Childhood = Initiative (3rd stage) - Children display eagerness to understand new activities - Guilt is emotional response to realization of possible failure Middle Childhood = Industry (6-12 years old) (4th stage) - Children attempt to gain recognition of their efforts in completing
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Film Write-up 1 October Sky is a based on a true story about a mining town called Coalwood and one boy’s journey. Homer Hickam is an adolescent boy whose life has been predetermined by his father‚ a foreman at the coalmine‚ to work down in the mines but he has a different plan for his life. In October 1957‚ everything changes when the first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik goes into orbit. After he sees the satellite flying across the night’s sky‚ Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets
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Jean Piaget was a theorist who studied child development; one of the many aspects of early childhood Piaget studied was preoperational thinking. Preoperational thinking usually occurs from ages 2 through 7 according to Piaget. It’s when a child is not able to think logically and perform activities that require logic. In other words‚ a child is not yet ready at this stage‚ to reason many situations. Piaget created many experiments that could help educators observe and detect the stages and levels
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• Question 1 1 out of 1 points People and consumers play different ______ depending on the situation. Selected Answer: Roles • Question 2 1 out of 1 points Hidden cameras in Publix can observe consumers without provoking ____ Selected Answer: The Hawthorne effect • Question 3 1 out of 1 points What is the relative customer profile variable: If the price was right‚ would you buy this car today? Selected Answer: buyer readiness stage • Question 4
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stage of cognitive development. The preoperational stage was given that name due to the adjustable mental process or the lack of operations‚ which is the first characteristic in this stage. The second characteristic of cognitive development is egocentrism. A child in the preoperational stage has limited ability to discriminate between their own perspectives and others. This basically means that the child has difficulties accepting the point of opinions from other rather than their own. The children
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operations. An example of this is how children perceive a taller glass having more liquid inside than a shorter glass with larger sides even though both contain the equal amount of liquid‚ developmental phenomena in this stage would be pretend play‚ egocentrism‚ and language development. Next in the concrete operational stage which begins at age 6 or 7 they begin to grasp that change in shape doesn’t correlate into change of quantity. Furthermore‚ he states children fully gain the mental ability to comprehend
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The cognitive process of child development and learning has influenced theorists such as Piaget‚ Vygtosky‚ Montessori‚ Bruner and Dewey to develop learning theories which highlight how the cognitive operation of learning occurs and how it is best achieved. The work of these theorists has become the foundation for much research and insight into how children develop on their journey towards learning. To understand how and when children begin to learn‚ it is important to look at why we value the
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