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Changes in an individual's physical nature.
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Biological processes
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Maintains that development reflects the influence of five environmental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
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Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory
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An in-depth look at a single individual.
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Case study
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Changes in an individual's thought, intellligence, and language.
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Cognitive processes
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Describe effects due to a person's time of birth, era, or generation but not to actual age.
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Cohort effects
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The issue regarding whether development involves gradual cumulative change (continuity) or distinct stages (discontinuity).
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Continuity-discontinuity issue
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A number based on statistical analysis that is used to describe the degree of association between two variables.
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Correlation coefficient
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The goal is to describe the strenght of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics.
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Correlational research
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Comparisons of one culture with one or more other cultures.
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Cross-cultural studies
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A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time.
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Cross-sectional approach
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The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation to generation. Results from the interaction of people over many years.
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Culture
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An orientation that does not follow any one theoretical approach, but rather selects from each theory whatever is considered the best in it.
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Ecletic theoretical orientation
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Includes 8 stages of human development. Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that confronts individuals with a crisis that must be resolved.
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Erikson's theory
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A characteristic basedon cultural heritage, nationality, race, religion, and language.
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Ethnicity
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Stresses that behavioris strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
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Ethology
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