What term is used to describe scientific approach to questions about growth, change, and stability in the physical, cognitive, social, and personality characterisitics at all ages form conception to death?
What is
Lifespan Development
100
What theorist focused attention on the unconcscious and stages through which chldren must pass successfully to to avoid harmful fixations
What is
Theorist Freud
100
The approach that states behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories,and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control?
What is
Psychodynamic Perspective
100
What term is used that describes the period from concept to birth
What is
Prenatal
100
A group of people born at around the same time in the same place?
What is
A Cohort
200
What perspective focuses on inner, largely unconscious forces
What is
The Psychodynamic Perspective
200
What Theorist identified eight distinct stages of development, each characterized by conflict, or crisis, to work out?
What is
Theorist Erikson
200
The theory that considers the relationship between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds.
What is
The Contextual Perspective
200
What terms are used that describes the following 2 periods from birth to age 3?
What is
Infancy and Toddlerhood
200
A biological concept is know as what?
What is
Race
300
Which perspective focuses on external, observational, actions?
What is
The Behavioral Perspective
300
Within the congnitive perspective, what Theorist identified developmental stages through which all children are assumed to pass - Each stage involves qualitive differencs in thinking.
What is
Theorist Piaget
300
The theory that seeks to identify behavior that is a result of our genetic inheritance from our ancestors?
What is
The Evolutionary Perspective
300
What term is used that describes the period from age 3-6?
What is
Preschool Period
300
what term is used that refers to cultural background, nationality, religion, and language?
What is
Ethnic Group
400
What perspective focuses on intellectual, cognitive processes?
What is
The Cognitive Perspective
400
What Theorist emphasizes the central influence on cognitive development exerted by social interactions between members of a culture?
What is
Theorist Vygotsky
400
The approach that examines cognitive development through the lens of brain processes?
What is Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
400
What terms are used that describes the following 2 age groups? 6-12 _________ and 12-20___________?
What is
Middle Childhood
Adolescence
400
a perdiction state in a way that permits it to be tested?
What is
Hypothesis
500
What perspective focuses on the unique qualitities of human beings?
What is
The Humanistic Perspective
500
What Evolutionary Theorist perspective attributes behavior to genetic inheritance from our ancestors, contending that genes determine not only traits such as skin, eye color, but certain personality traits and social behavior
What is
Evolutionary Theorist Darwin
500
The approach that seeks to identify the way individuals take in, use, and store information?
What is
Cognitive Perspective
500
What terms are used to describe the following 3 periods that represent the following age groups:
1. Ages 20-40
2. Ages 46-60
3. 30 to death
What is
1. Yound Adulthood
2. Middle Adulthood
3. Late Adulthood
500
What type of research is used to study the lifespan of the participant?