PSY 101: LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWER S WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 developmental psychology - ANSWER study of the physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and social changes that occur throughout human life, which are guided by both genetic predispositions (nature) and environmental influences (nurture) longitudinal study - ANSWER research that involves looking at changes in variables over the course of many years Erikson's psychosocial model of development - ANSWER personality develops in eight stages, as a result of how the psychosocial conflict at each stage is resolved maturation - ANSWER biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience cognition - ANSWER all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating Jean Piaget - ANSWER developmental psychologist; believed that as children mature, they increase cognitive abilities in stages Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development - ANSWER specific improvements in thinking happen during stages of human development; see also preoperational, concrete, formal operations zone of proximal development - ANSWER the range of abilities that a person can perform with assistance, but cannot yet perform independently; see also Vygotsky and scaffolding attachment - ANSWER emotional bonds we develop with those with whom we feel closest, and particularly the bonds an infant develops with the mother or primary caregiver
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