Human Growth and Development ch 1-6
Domains of Development -
Physical - body size appearance, system & motor capabilities๎โ๏ธ๎
Cognitive - intellectual abilities: attention, memory, imagination, creativity & language
Emotional (Social) - Self understanding, knowledge about others, friends, intimate relationships,
morals, emotional expression & communication
Development is CONTINUOUS -
process of gradually building upon the same skills that were there to begin withโ๏ธ๎
Development is DISCONTINUOUS -
process of responding to the world develop at different timesโ๏ธ๎
Stage -
change in thinking/feeling/behaving that characterizes a specific period of developmentโ๏ธ๎
Binet & Simon -
Fathers of the Testing Movement - tested aptitude & intelligenceโ๏ธ๎
Freud -
*Father of the Psychoanalytic Movementโ๏ธ๎
*Said children go through stages where they confront conlicts between social & biological drives.
Resolution of these conflicts determines psychological growth
Psychosexual Theory -
parents ability to control childrens sexual & aggressive drives for their healthy personal โ๏ธ๎
development
Erikson -
*Neo freudian โ๏ธ๎
*Expanded psychosocial theory which says there are specific tasks & tasks to be mastered
*1st to have a lifespan focus
Pavlov -
*Father of Behaviorismโ๏ธ๎
*Behaviorism - stimuli & response through conditioning
Classical Conditioning -
certain responses gained from stimulus with passive individuals (dogs)โ๏ธ๎
Skinner (Operant Conditioning) -
responses through reinforcement or punishmentโ๏ธ๎
Behavior Modification -
combine conditioning and modeling to decrease negative behavior and increase positive โ๏ธ๎
behaviors (Widely used)
Bandura (Social Learning Theory) -
Obersvational learning or role model learning. Renamed Social Cognitive Theoryโ๏ธ๎
