Psych Ch.4

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Lifespan development

The study of changes and continuities from womb to tomb

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Developmental science

A larger, interdisciplinary field that includes all changes we experience throughout the lifespan

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Basic issues

  1. Continuous or discontinuous development?

  2. One course of development or many?

  3. Roles of genetic and environmental factors?

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Continuous theories

A process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with

-development is a quantitative process

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Discontinuous theories

a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific timesa

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Stages

qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development

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Contexts

unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change

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Nature-nurture controversy 

debate over the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors

  • A theories position on nature and nurture affects how it explains individual differences

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Stability

heredity and early experiences are key to establishing a lifelong pattern of behaviour

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Plasticity

development is open to change in response to influential experiences

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Developmental systems

development as an ongoing process molded by a complex network of genetic/biological, psychological, and social influences

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Chromosomes

store and transmit genetic information 

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DNA

substance of which genes and chromosomes are made

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Gene

a segment of DNA located along the chromosomes

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Genotype

an individuals unique genetic information

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Phenotype

an individuals directly observable characteristics 

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