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Lifespan Development
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Continues through life
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3 Interrelated areas of Lifespan development
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Physical, cognitive, psychosocial
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Cohort
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A group of people born around the same time in the same place
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Continuous change
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Gradual developments where achievements BUILD on previous level
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Discontinuous change
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Distinct steps, each behavior brings out a different change
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Critical period
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Time during development where stimuli has its greatest consequences (Long lasting, irreversible consequences)
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Sensitive period
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Reversible consequences, if stimuli are removed
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Maturation
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Any factor that is produced by the predetermined unfolding of genetic information
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Freud's psychoanalytic theory
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UNCONCIOUS forces act to determine personality and behavior, the unconscious is a part of a person's personality that they are unaware of. i.e. hidden wishes/desires
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Freud's 3 components of personality
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Id - raw, unorganized inborn part of personality present at birth, pleasure principleego-rational and reasonable, buffer between world and idsuperego-person's conscience, distinctions between right and wrong
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Erikson's psychosocial theory
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Society and culture shape us
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Psychosocial development
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Changes in our interactions with and understandings of one another as well as in our knowledge and understanding of us as members of society
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Behavioral perspective (SKINNER)
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Keys to understanding development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment
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Operant conditioning
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Form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive/negative consequences
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Behavior modification
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Formal technique of promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones
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