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This is the belief that development occurs throughout life.
What is life-span perspective?
100
According to this theroist, physical comfort and sensitive care are keys to establishing a basic trust in infants which is the foundation for attachment. This theroist also believes the first year of life respresents the stage of trust versus mistrust.
Who is Erik Erikson?
100
This approach analyzes how individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and create strategies for handling it. It involves attention, memory, and thinking.
What is the Information-Processing Approach?
100
This study involves investigation to discover whether, in behavior and psychological characteristics, adopted children are more like their adoptive parents, who provided a home environment, or more like their biological parents, who contributed their heredity.
What is the adoption study?
100
In this career, you would identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems and will sometimes work with physicians. You need a minimum of an undergraduate degree.
What is a speech therapist?
200
This process includes the physical changes in an individual's physical nature, including genes inherited from parents, brain development and changes in motor skills.
What is biological process?
200
This theroist developed a widely used gender measure in which, based on responses to items, individuals are classified as having one of four gender orientations: masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated.
Who is Sandra Bem?
200
This approach to development involves a widely used scale used in assessing infant development and includes three parts: mental scale, motor scale, and infant behavior profile.
What is the Bayley Scales of Infant Development?
200
This is a study in which the behavioral similarity of identical twins is compared with the behavioral similarity of fraternal twins.
What is the twin study?
200
In this career, you would help students cope with adjustment problems, identify their abilities and interests, develop academic plans and explore career options. This career requires a masters degree.
What is a school counselor?
300
This process involves the changes in the individual's thought, intelligence, and language like putting together a 2-word sentence or imagining what it would be like to be a star.
What is cognitive process?
300
According to this theorist, the life-span perspective views development as lifelong, multidimensional; multidirectional; plastic; multidisciplinary and contextual; and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regularion of loss.
Who is Paul Baltes?
300
This approach emphasizes that how life events influence the individual's development depends not only on the event but also on mediating factors (like physical health and family supports), the individuals adaptation to the life event (or appraisal to the threat or coping strategies), the life-stage context, and the sociohistorical context.
What is contemporary life-events approach?
300
A study in which one culture is compared to one or more cultures that prodived information about the degree to which development is similar, or universal, across cultures, and to the degree to which it is culture-specific.
What is the cross-cultural study?
300
In this career, you would monitor infant's and children's health and work to prevent injury and disease. You can work in the hospital and need an undergraduate degree up to a masters degree.
What is a pediatric nurse?
400
Involves families, lifestyles, and parenting as well as schools, achievement and work in an individual's life span.
What are social contexts of development?
400
This theorist is responsible for the social cognitive theory and acknowledges the important influence of evolution on human adaptation in which environmental and biological conditions influence each other.
Who is Albert Bandura?
400
This approach is a learner-centered approach that emphasizes the childs active, cognitive construction of knowledge and understanding.
What is constructivist approach?
400
In this research study, researchers tested the infant's understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched.
What is object permanence?
400
This career focuses on improving the psychological and intellectual well-being of elementary, middle/junior, and high school students. It involves giving students psychological tests and interviewing students and their parents. It requires a masters or doctoral degree in psychology.
What is a school psychologist?
500
This process invloves individual's relationships with other people and changes in emotions and personality, for example an infants smile in response to her mother's touch.
What is the socioemotional process?
500
This theorist thought that, just as our physical bodies have structures that enable us to adapt to the world, we build mental structures that help us to adapt to the world.
Who is Jean Piaget?
500
This stage of Piagets theory of cognitive development states the child can now reason logically about concrete events, understands the concept of conversation, and places objects in ordered series.
What is the concrete operational stage?
500
Frantz' research method - studying whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another by measuring the lenght of time they attend to different stimuli - if referred to as this.
What is the visual preference method?
500
In this career, you will work with children and families when child is hospitalized. You would monitor a child's activities, seek to reduce stress, and may provide parent education and develop treatment plans based on child's development, temperment, and medical plan.
What is a child life specialist?