PSYC 230 Chapter 1 vocab

human development (5)

nature–nurture issue (6)

continuity–discontinuity issue (6)

universal and context-specific development issue (7)

biological forces (7)

psychological forces (7)

sociocultural forces (7)

life-cycle forces (7)

biopsychosocial framework (7)

neuroscience (10)

theory (12)
psychodynamic theories (12)

psychosocial theory (12)

epigenetic principle (13)

operant conditioning (13)

reinforcement (13)

punishment (14)
imitation or observational learning (14)

self-efficacy (14)
information-processing theory (16)

ecological theory (17)
microsystem (18)
mesosystem (18)
exosystem (18)
macrosystem (18)
competence (18)
environmental press (18)
life-span perspective (19)
selective optimization with compensation (SOC) model (19)

life-course perspective (20)

systematic observation (23)

naturalistic observation (23)

structured observations (23)

self-reports (24)
reliability (25)
validity (25)

populations (25)
sample (25)
correlational study (26)

correlation coefficient (26)

experiment (27)

independent variable (27)

dependent variable (27)

qualitative research (28)

longitudinal study (28)

cross-sectional study (30)

cohort effects (30)

sequential design (30)

meta-analysis (31)