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FlashCards por lucykania27, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por lucykania27
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| Questão | Responda |
| What is Lifespan Development? | This term is used to refer to age-related changes that occur from birth, throughout a person’s life, into and during old age. |
| Stages of the Lifespan | Infancy – birth to two years Childhood – two years to 10 years Adolescence – 10 years to 20 years Early Adulthood – 20 years to 40 years Middle Age – 40 years to 65 years Older Age – 65 years and beyond |
| What are the areas of Lifespan Development? | - Physical (biological) Development - Social Development - Cognitive Development - Emotional Development |
| What is Nature? | Nature (Heredity) -> the transmission of characteristics from biological parents to their offspring via genes at the time of conception. |
| What is Nurture? | Nurture (Environment) -> all experiences, objects and events to which we are all exposed to throughout our entire lifetime |
| What is the Biological Perspective of Psychology? | Focuses on the biological or physiological bases of development. |
| What is the Cognitive Perspective of Psychology? | Focuses on changes in how we acquire, process, remember and use information throughout the lifespan |
| What is the Behavioural Perspective of Psychology? | Focuses on how behaviour is acquired or changes as a result of environmental influences, particularly learning |
| What is the Socio-Cultural Perspective of Psychology? | Emphasises the roles of social and cultural influences on human behaviour and mental processes |
| What is Adaptation? | The continuous process of using the environment to learn and of learning to adjust to changes that occur in the environment. |
| What is Assimilation? | The process of taking in new information and fitting it into and making it part of an existing mental idea about objects or the world. |
| What is Accommodation? | Changing an existing mental idea in order to fit new information. A more sophisticated and advanced process. |
| What is Schema? | A mental idea, or organised mental representation, of what something is and how to deal with it. |
| Stages of Piaget's Theory | -Sensory Motor 0-2 - Pre-Operational 2-7 -Concrete Operational 7-12 - Formal Operational 12+ |
| Criticisms of Piaget's Theory | - Key Accomplishments are often achieved by children much younger than the ages proposed by Piaget. - Age ranges vary more widely than Piaget described - Piaget may have overestimated young children’s language ability. |
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