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Lifespan Psychology Questions

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Self-efficacythe study of how people come to believe that they are competent or likely to succeed at different kinds of tasks
Sequential Designa combination of cross sectional and longitudinal designs
Social/Emotional Developmentencompasses temperament, personality, and socialization into a particular cultural group
Superegois the conscience; it tells the person what s/he should or should not do
Unconsciousonly available through hypnosis
Nature people say all things are genetically determinedNature VS Nurture
What is the best way to get information about large groups of college students wexual habits?Survey
What is the main problem with experiments?They do not mirror real life because they are control
What is the type of study used to determin how five year old children change how they think as they get older?Longitudinal
A five year old child plans on his own to do something. What is he in?Initiative vs. Guilt
At what age is a person in identity vs. role confusion stage?adolescence
What is the stage that early adulthood stage persons in?Intimacy vs. Isolation
An older adult looks back on his life and whishes he had done things better. What stage is he in?Integrity vs. Despair
Two students are talking to each other during a college lecture. The professor stops lecturing and stares at the student until they stop. What is this reinforcement?Negative reinforcement (operant conditioning)
Who thought that: Differ in person relationship to family and culture?Erikson
Group of people with different ages but similar in other ways comparedCross sectional
Combination of cross sectional and longitudal where different age groups are studied over long period of timeSequential research
Information collected from number of people by questionairesSurvey
Variables of scientific experimentsDependant/Independant
Might change as result of change or adding independant varibale in experimentDenpendant Variable
Group born within few years same historical and social conditionsCohort effects
Originated psycohanalytic theory, oral, anal, phallic, latency and genitalFreud
Adulthood is stable with transitional periodsLevin
Added onto Erickson theory, used longitudinal studies in career consolidationValliant
Operant conditioning (pos/neg reinforcement)Skinner
Reciprocal determinismBanduras
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operationalPiaget
Apprenticeship in thinking, and zone of proximal developmentVygotsky
Language advances thinking through private speechZone of proximal development
Systemic body of testable theories that can be verified or refutedThe science of lifespan development
A major strenght of __________ theory is its framework for explaining environmental influences on development.Ecological

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