FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LIFESPAN

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LIFESPAN

CH 1 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Sensitive Period

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A point in development when organisms are particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environments, but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce irreversible consequences.

Question 2: Discontinuous Change

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Development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behaviour that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages.

Question 3: Behavioral Perspective

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The approach suggesting that the keys to understanding development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment

Question 4: Personality Development

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Development involving the ways that enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over the life span

Question 5: Hypothesis

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A prediction stated in a way that permits it to be tested

Question 6: Psychoanalytic Theory

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Theory proposed by Freud that suggests unconscious forces act to determine personality & behavior.

Question 7: Correlational Research

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Research that seeks to identify whether and association or relationship between two factors exists

Question 8: Operant Conditioning

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A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative responses.

Question 9: Lifespan Development

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the field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occurs throughout the entire lifespan.

Question 10: Cognitive Perspective

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The approach that focuses on the process that allow people to know, understand, & think about the world.

Question 11: Theories

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Explanations & predictions concerning phenomena of interest--providing a framework of understanding the relationships among an organized set of facts or principles.

Question 12: Contextual Perspective

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The theory that considers the relationship of individuals & their physical, cognitive, personality, & social worlds

Question 13: Case Studies

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Studies that involve extensive, in-depth interviews with a particular individual or small group of individuals

Question 14: Sequential Studies

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Research in which researchers examine a number of different age groups over several points of time

Question 15: Information Processing Approach

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Models that seek to identify the ways individuals take in, use, & store information.

Question 16: Dependent Variable

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The variable that researchers measure in an experiment and expect to change as a result of the experimental manipulation

Question 17: Social-Congitive Learning Theory

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Learning by observing the behavior of another person, called a model.

Question 18: Experimental Research

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Reasearch designed to discover the causal relationship between various factors

Question 19: Psychophysiological Methods

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Research that focuses on the relationship between physiological processes and behavior

Question 20: Sociocultural Theory

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The approach that emphasizes how cognitive development proceeds as a result of social interactions between members of a culture

Question 21: Cross-Sectional Research

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Research in which people of different ages are compared at the same point in time

Question 22: Behavior Modification

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A formal technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted behaviors.

Question 23: Psychosexual Development

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(Freud) Series of stages children go through in which pleasure or gratification focuses on a particular biological function & body part.

Question 24: Cognitive Development

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Development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence behavior

Question 25: Continuous Change

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Gradual development in which achievements at one level build on those of previous levels (quantitative in nature).

Question 26: Scientific Method

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The process of posing and answering questions using careful, controlled techniques that include systematic, orderly observation and the collection of data

Question 27: Bioecological Approach

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The perspective suggesting that different levels of the environment simultaneously influence individuals

Question 28: Field Study

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A research investigation carried out in a naturally occurring setting