Psych 102 Exam 1

Capacity to change.

Produce changes in an individual's physical nature.

Refer to changes in the individual's thought, intelligence, and language.

Involve changes in the individual's relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality.

Systematic statement of principles and generalizations that provides a coherent framework for studying development.

Interprets human development in terms of motives and drives, has made us aware of importance of early childhood experiences.

Emphasis on ways that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it. Individuals develop a gradually increasing capacity for information, which allows them to acquire increasingly complex knowledge and skills.

Studies groups differing in age but sharing other important characteristics (education, SES, ethnicity)

Studies individuals over a long period; valuable developmental information from these studies.

Studies several groups of people at different ages, then follows these groups longitudinally.

Cognitive/ Stage (through adolescence)

Psychosocial/ Stage (through adolescence)

Psychosocial/ Stage (throughout lifespan)

Cognitive/ Continuous

The way that we reason and come to know the world changes from one developmental stage to the next.