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Chapter 10 Section 1
Developmental Psychology is study of watching development. Characterized into longitudinal and cross sectional method. Longitudinal they select a group of participants and then observe that same group for a period time. Cross sectional method is selecting a sample that includes as they pass through age groups. Heredity and environment affect human development nature and nurture, Watson and Loc believe infant is a blank slate when they are born. What's around influences who they become -
Chapter 10 Section 2
Babies grow especially in the embryo infants grow to be 2 billion times the size from conception to birth. After 8 weeks they develop a respiratory system. Develop reflexes like the Babinksi reflex where a baby raises their big toes and fan out all their toes when the soles of there feet are touched. Motor development starts to develop into Gross and fine motor development using larger muscle groups and smaller. Perception eyesight and taste buds also begin to develop. -
Chapter 10 Section 3
After 4 months social development develops including ways for infants and children to learn how to relate to each other and other people. Attachments to their primary caregiver starts to for over time from here, and after 8 months infants develop a fear of strangers. Styles of parenting is separated by warm parents and cold parents. 5 to 7 children start to value themselves societal and expectations and at its lowest around 12 to 13 due to puberty -
Chapter 10 Section 4
Piaget thought of theories. Assimilation is when new information is placed into categories that already exist. Accommodation is change brought about because of new information. Sensorimotor stage behavior of newborns is reflexive. Preoperation stage thinking is different from more mature forms of thinking. Concrete operation stage age 7 start to think logically about specific objects. Formal operational stage children start to have cognitive thinking around 12 and 13 begin to think abstractly. -
Chapter 11 Section 1
Girls and boys mature at different rates and often feel very awkward. Puberty brings the onset of sexual development and characteristics. -
Chapter 11 Section 2
Hormonal changes effect the mood and activity of the teens often affecting their relationships with their parents and peers. Arguments can arise from issues with freedom and responsibility. Peers become super close to their peers joining cliques and being apart of crowds. Teens also start to interact with their moms more. -
Chapter 11 Section 3
Teens go through different periods of identity. Identity moratorium where is the need to search for an identity. Foreclosure which is making a commitment to an identity. Diffusion which is the constant search for meaning. Achievement which is finally finding an identity. -
Chapter 11 Section 4
Teens need adequate nutrition to grow properly. Some teens suffer eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia which can affect their growth. Substance abuse is also a growing problem in teens as more and more each year are driven to it. However withdrawal can also be harmful -
Chapter 12 Section 1
Early adulthood is between 20 and 40. People are at their peek at this point in life physically and mentally. Age 30 a transition begins to happen as people start to question their life choices. Mid to late 30's people begin to want to settle down and start a family and advance in a career. -
Chapter 12 Section 2
Some people start to go through midlife crisis however only 10% of Americans claim to have experienced a midlife crisis mentally do to aging, and other cultures don't believe in it all together. Midlife adulthood spans from 40 to 65. In many adults generativity starts to fade away making them less creative. Sometimes during this time a second midlife crisis can happen. Women also begin to go through menopause where there is an end in menstruation. -
Chapter 12 Section 3
Centurions are becoming more relevant with more and more people living past 100. 65 until death is late adulthood. To live to be 100 people need to live a simple life with strong ties to family and remaining active their entire lives. Dementia and Alzheimer disease are both becoming more common in older adults due mainly because 1 in 5 people are 65 or older. People start to retire and become grandparents around this age as well. -
Chapter 12 Section 4 Death
Some people are put into hospice care in the older years typically 70 till death as medical complications emerge. Euthanasia is something illegal in many states but is when an elderly adult near death can be put down in a sense in a painless way. Many people write living wills so when they die it isn't complicated on who gets their stuff. Everywhere around the world has different ways of grieving some with even celebration and everyone grieves differently.
