Lifespan Development (Chapter 1-7)

Developed by Bronfenbrenner (aka the circle diagram) which contains the microsystem connected by meseosystem along with exosystem (medical institutions, school system, mass media, community), and the Macrosystem (social conditions, economic patterns, cultural values).

Mulitdirectionalmulticontextualmulticuturalmultidisciplinary

Ongoing change is possible

1) Forumlate a research question2) Develop a hypothesis3) Test a hypothesis4) Draw conclusions5) Make findings available

Replication is possible and it is systematic and objective observation.

The way to find causation by using a independent variable (treatment) to get a dependent variable (outcome) with a experimental and control group

Quick and easy but vulnerable to bias

One individual that looks at change over time

Cross-sectional ResearchLongitudinal ResearchCross-sequential Research

Correlation does not equal causationQuantitative research: the degree of difference expressed in numberQualitative research: Rich data which is vulnerable to bias and difficult to replicate

Psychosexual developmentStages: Oral (birth-1), Anal (1-3), Phallic (3-6), Latency (6-11), and Genital (Adolescence-adulthood)

Id: unconscious sexual driveEgo: reality driven, part in consciounessSuperego: contradicts the id and drives to be socially appropriate

Psychosocial stages: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, indentity vs role confusion, intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs stagnation, and integrity vs despair.

Behaviorists who hold that all behavior is and can be shaped; propose the laws of behavior; explore the relationship betweens timulus and response

Conditioning (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, etc)Classical (Pavlov and the dog)Operant (B.F. Skinner)Social Learning (Bandura and others)Modeling