Theories of Development
An approach that combines pieces from multiple different theories.
What is an eclectic theoretical orientation?
These nerve cells process information.
What are neurons?
Researchers must keep all participants data anonymous.
What is confidentiality?
A person's ___________ includes behavior patterns and beliefs.
What is culture?
During this period of time, ages 6-11, children are slowly, but consistently growing.
When is middle and late childhood?
This theorist developed stages based off our pleasure centers. He also believed problems were a result of early experiences.
Who is Freud?
During this time, dramatic brain changes are related to local patterns within the brain.
When is childhood? (see p. 115)
This type of observation is not necessarily representative of everyday life, but helps the scientist to control most factors that influence behavior.
What is a laboratory observation?
This implies inequalities.
What is socioeconomic status?
This epidemic is a result of a poor diet and low levels of activity.
What is obesity?
Vygotsky, Piaget, and information-processing are all types of this theory.
What are cognitive theories?
These fibers connect the right and left hemispheres and improve our ability to process information.
What is the corpus callosum?
We use this type of research to determine cause-and-effect relationships.
What is experimental research?
When a new member in a society adopts pieces of the new culture, while maintaining pieces from their former culture.
What is bicultural orientation?
In the first year of an infant's life, if they do not have a sufficient protein-calorie intake, this will result in a shrunken, elderly appearance.
What is marasmus?
This theory holds behavior, environment, and cognition are the key factors in development.
What is social cognitive theory?
This view emphasizes the importance of interactions between experience and genes in the development of the brain.
What is the neuroconstructivist view?
This variable is manipulated/changed in the experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Powerlessness, vulnerability to disaster, and limited range of alternatives are all psychological consequences of this problem.
What is poverty?
This type of sleeping, laying on your stomach, is NOT recommended for infants.
What is prone position?
Environment is viewed as the main influence on development in regards to the nature versus nurture debate for these theorists.
Who are behavioral and social cognitive theorists?
This endocrine gland controls growth and regulates other glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
___________ is objective, systematic, and testable.
What is science?
This includes cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language.
What is ethnicity?
This is a period of physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily in early adolescence.
What is puberty?