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Louise Brown
Louise Joy Brown (born July 25, 1978, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England) is the world's first baby to be conceived by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. TERM 2
Lifespan Development
DEFINITION 2 Field of Study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan TERM 3
Cohort
DEFINITION 3 Group of people born around the same time TERM 4
Continous Change
DEFINITION 4 gradual development, in which achievement at one level builds on those of provious levels TERM 5
Discontinuous Change
DEFINITION 5 development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behavios that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages
Critical
Period
specific time during development when a particulat event had it's greatest consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli are necassary for development to proceed normally TERM 7
Sensitive Periods
DEFINITION 7 a point in development when organisms are particularly suceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in the environments, but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce irreversible consequences TERM 8
maturation
DEFINITION 8 Predetermined unfolding of genetic information TERM 9
theories
DEFINITION 9 explanations and predictions concerning phenomina of interest, providing a fromework for understnading the relationships among an organized set of facts of principles TERM 10
psychodynamic perspective
DEFINITION 10 approach that states behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond peoples awareness and control
operant conditioning
form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or negative but its association TERM 17
behavior modifictaion
DEFINITION 17 formal techniques for promoting behavior and decreasing incidence of unwanted ones TERM 18
social cognitive learning theories
DEFINITION 18 learning by observing the behavior of another person called a model TERM 19
cognitive perspective
DEFINITION 19 approach that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world TERM 20
Information processing approach
DEFINITION 20 modle that seeks to identify ways individuals take in, use, and store information alternative to piaget
cognitive neuroscience approaches
behavior approach that examines cognitive development through the lens of brain processes TERM 22
humanistic perspective
DEFINITION 22 theory contending that people have a natural capacity to make decisions about their lives and control their behavior TERM 23
contexual persoective
DEFINITION 23 theory that considers relationship between indeviduals and their physical, cognitive, personaloty, and social worlds TERM 24
bioecological approach
DEFINITION 24 perspective suggesting that different levels of the environment simultaneously influence individuals TERM 25
sociocultural theory
DEFINITION 25 approach that emphasizes how cognitice development proceeds as a result of social interactions between embers of a culture
experimantal research
research designed to discover casual relationships between various factors TERM 32
naturalistic observation
DEFINITION 32 a type of correlational study in which come naturally occurring behavior is observed without intervention in the situation TERM 33
case studies
DEFINITION 33 studies that involve extensive indepth interviews with a particular individual or small group of individuals TERM 34
survey research
DEFINITION 34 type of study where a group of people chosen to represent some larger population are asked questions about their attitudes, behavior, or thinking on a given topic TERM 35
psychophysiological methods
DEFINITION 35 research that focuses on the relationshop between phsysiological processes and behavior
experiment
a process in which an investigator, called and experomentor, devises twp different experiences for participants TERM 37
independent variable
DEFINITION 37 variable that researchers manipulate in an experiment TERM 38
dependent variable
DEFINITION 38 cariable that researchers measure in an experiment and experct to change as a result of the experimantal manipulation TERM 39
sample
DEFINITION 39 group of participants chosen for the experiment TERM 40
field study
DEFINITION 40 research investigation carried out in naturally occuring setting
sequentional studies
research in which researchers examine a number of defferent age groupd over several points in time
