Theorists
This theorist is associated with Psychosexual Development.
Who is Sigmund Freud
Examples of this type of research are changes in weight, height number of words.
What is quantitative reseach?
This perspective is influenced by heredity and inborn characteristics that are inherited from one's biological parents.
What is the nature perspective?
This household unit consists of parents, siblings, adopted children, and stepchildren.
What is a nuclear family?
This a term used to explain development as modifiable?
What is plasticity?
This theorist is associated with Psychosocial Development and proposes 8 stages with each stage representing a developmental crisis.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Examples of this type of research are changes in beliefs, attitudes or perspectives.
What is qualitative research?
This perspective is influenced by the environment and context in which we live.
What is the nurture perspective?
This household unit is a kinship network consisting of parents, children, grandchildren, and cousins.
What is an extended family?
This term designates a time when a specific event or the absence of a event has an impact on development.
What is a critical period?
Who is Jean Piaget?
This issue with research is focuses on "does the research measure what it claims to measure" such as intelligence on an IQ test.
What is validity?
This is something that increases the likelihood of a negative outcome such as teratogens or poverty.
What is a risk factor?
This term refers to someone a person might consider as "family" but is not really related by blood or marriage.
What is fictive kin?
John Locke coined this phrase to suggest that children are born a "blank slate."
What is tabula rasa?
This theorist focuses on how children learn through social interaction with others and uses the terms scaffolding and ZPD.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This issue in research focuses on the ability of research to provide "consistent" results from one test to another.
What is reliability?
The study of lifespan development focuses primarily on these two things.
What is change and stability?
These 3 things determine or influence a person's socioeconomic status or SES.
What are education, occupation, and income?
An automatic bond with something or someone at a sensitive period in development
What is imprinting?
This theory focuses on modification of behavior through classical and operant conditioning.
What is Behaviorism?
This type of research is intended to discover whether or not a relationship exists between certain variables.
What is a correlational study?
This term is used when society as a whole decides on something such as the ages and stages in the lifespan.
What is a social construction?
These things influence a family's way of life including customs, traditions, language, beliefs, and values.
What is culture?
Overgeneralizations about an ethnic or cultural group.
What is ethnic gloss?