AP Psych Unit 3
Call Kai
Learn
Practice Test
Spaced Repetition
Match
Flashcards
Knowt Play1/52
There's no tags or description
Looks like no tags are added yet.
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced | Call with Kai |
|---|
No analytics yet
Send a link to your students to track their progress
53 Terms
Developmental psychology
Studies the chronological order of development and thematic issues in development across the lifespan. How humans change over time.
Nature vs. nurture
Developmental psychologists say BOTH. Nature (genes) set the foundation, but your nurture (environment) shapes how that foundation forms
Stability vs. change
Developmental psychologists say BOTH. People can stay the same person throughout life (stable) and change drastically as they develop (change).
Continuity vs. stages
Do humans develop gradually and smoothly (continuity) or does development jump through stages and processes?
Cross-sectional study
Psychologists compare different age groups at 1 point in time. Issue: different kids, so differences might be generational and not developmental.
Longitudinal study
Follows the same group of people over a long period of time. Issue: more accurate, but takes forever and many people drop out.
5 things that affect prenatal development
Teratogens
Illness
Genetic mutations
Hormones
Environmental factors
Rooting reflex
When you press an infant’s cheek, they’ll turn their head to the side.
Visual cliff experiment (1960)
Infants hesitated going off a man-made dropoff point