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Developmental Psychology
Which perspective considers a relationship between individuals and their physical cognitive personality and social world?
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Which theoretical perspective argues that people have a natural capacity to make decisions about their lives?

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Developmental Psychology

Term	Definition
Lifespan Development	the field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire life span.
Physicial Development	Development involving the body's physical makeup, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink, and sleep.
Cognitive Development	Development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person's behavior.
Personality Development	Development involving the ways that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another changes over the life span.
Social Development	The way in which individuals' interactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life.
Cohort	A group of people born at around the same time in the same place.
Continuous change	Gradual development in which achievements at one level build on those of previous levels.
Discontinuous change	Development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages.
Critical period	A specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli are necessary for development to proceed normally.
Sensitive period	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.
Maturation	The predetermined unfolding of genetic information.
Theories	Broad explanations, and predictions about phenomena of interest.
Psychodynamic perspective	The approach that states behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control.
Psychoanalytic theory	The theory proposed by Freud that suggests that unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior.
Psychosexual Development	According to Freud, a series of stages that children pass through in which pleasure, or gratification, is focused on a particular biological function and body part.
Psychosocial Development	According to Erikson, development that encompasses changes in both the understandings individuals have themselves as members of society and in their comprehension of the meaning of others' behavior.
Behavioral perspective	The approach that suggests that the keys to understanding development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment.
Classical conditioning	A type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response.
Operant conditioning	A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative consequences.
Behavior modification	A formal technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones.
Social-cognitive learning theory	Learning by observing the behavior another person, called a model.
Cognitive perspective	The approach that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world.
Information processing approaches	The model that seeks to identify the ways individuals take in, use, and store information.
Cognitive neuroscience approaches	The approach that examines cognitive development through the lens of brain processes.
Humanistic perspective	The theory that contends that people have a natural capacity to make decisions about their lives and control their behavior.
Contextual perspective	The theory that considers the relationship between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds.
Bioecological approach	The perspective suggesting that the levels of the environment simultaneously influence individuals.
Sociocultural theory	The approach that emphasizes how cognitive development proceeds as a result of social interactions between members of a culture.
Evolutionary perspective	The theory that seeks to identify behavior that is a result of our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.

The contextual perspective considers the relationship between individuals and their physical, cognitive, and social worlds. It also examines socio-cultural and environmental influences on development. We will focus on two major theorists who pioneered this perspective: Lev Vygotsky and Urie Bronfenbrenner.