Lifespan Perspective
The totality of our shared language, knowledge, material objects, and behavior.
What is Culture?
The number of years since birth is not the only way to conceptualize this
What is age?
The stage of development that begins at conception
What is prenatal?
Those on the side of this would argue that heredity plays the most important role in bringing about a feature.
What is nature?
This is based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind, and therefore psychologists should limit their attention to the study of behavior itself.
What is Behaviorism/Learning Theory?
This cohort was born from 1981-1996
What are Millennials?
The number of years since birth
What is chronological age?
The ages of six to the onset of puberty comprise middle and late childhood, and much of what children experience at this age is connected to their involvement in the early grades of school
What is Middle/Late Childhood?
Those on the side of this would argue that one's environment is most significant in shaping the way we are.
What is nurture?
This man emphasized the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping our personality and behavior. His beliefs dominated the field of psychiatry until the growth of behaviorism in the 1950s.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is lifelong, multidirectional, multidimensional, multidisciplinary, and multicontextual.
What is development?
The psychologically adaptive capacity compared to others of our chronological age.
What is Psychological age?
A period of dramatic physical change marked by an overall growth spurt and sexual maturation, known as puberty
What is adolescence?
A role in the development path where the subject is at the whim of their genetic inheritance or the environment that surrounds him/her.
What is active?
The predominant early theory that a tiny, fully formed human is implanted in the sperm or egg at conception and then grows in size until birth,
What is Preformationism?
This is a specific age group, such as toddler, adolescent, or senior. Humans in this share particular experiences and developmental changes.
What is an Age-Grade?
This is based on the social norms of our culture and the expectations our culture has for people of our age group
This is a period in which aging becomes more noticeable and when many people are at their peak of productivity in love and work.
What is middle adulthood?
This assumes that developmental change often occurs in distinct stages that are qualitatively different from each other, and in a set, universal sequence.
What is discontinuous development?
Proposed by Erikson, each period of life has a unique challenge or crisis that the person who reaches it must face called this.
What is a psychosocial crises?
This is illustrated in the brain’s ability to learn from experience and how it can recover from injury.
What is Plasticity?
This is affected by our nutrition, level of physical activity, sleeping habits, smoking, alcohol consumption, how we mentally handle stress, and the genetic history of our ancestors.
What is biological age?
A transitional time between the end of adolescence and before individuals acquire all the benchmarks of adulthood.
What is emerging adulthood?
Behaviorists, such as Vygotsky, and information processing theorists assume development is a more slow and gradual process known as this.
What is continuous development?
This concept suggests that there is interplay between our personality and the way we interpret events and how they influence us.
What is reciprocal determinism?