Developmental H5 01 27 2015 Psychology in world news Extra credit assignment Use 4X6 card for this From a news source Ex Time magazine paper or the nightly news Has to be within the last 30 days Each card counts for 6 points for a total of 18 points On the card o Name o News source and date of the news o Title o Summary of article several sentences o Tell how this article relates to developmental psychology Small group with Lucy Lesile Worth 12 points Sign up sheet next week in class Will be at 5 on Tuesdays and Thursdays Ch 1 Don t read the whole chapter because they are so long Read them in divisions Summary at the end of every chapter is very important Ch 1 is an introduction to the course Probably just 1 chapter in the introduction course Ted Kaczynski UNA bomber o Went to Harvard at 16 o Loner came from a privileged home o PhD in Math from Michigan o Genius in the a kids body o Lived in the wilderness and lived in a very small shake in Montana killed 3 people o Killed people with mail bombs over 10 years using 16 bombs o Why did he become this way Alice Walker Author wrote the color purple o Born in the 40 s in GA to very poor share croppers o Shot in the eye with a BB gun at 8 by her brother and didn t see the dr for a week o Prize winning author Nature vs nuture o What is more important in how you develop as an adult Is one part bigger or a more powerful factor o Twin studies Fraternal twins are vastly more common than identical o Most books talk about the life span of the human being In the past the field talked about the development at about the age of 21 o Humans continue to develop throughout their life Books now say if they talk about the old way or the life span approach o Most babies start to walk at about one year of age o Life expectancy chart Life expectancy has jumped up tremendously recently 122 in the oldest a person has lived o Development is multi dimensional Biological physical growth and health issues major causes of death height and weight gain Brain growth and development Cognitive Refers about thought processes Attention memory language skills abstract thought and social intelligence Socio emotional Refers about emotions and how you read other people s emotions and how you read yourself o Plastity Ability to change Sever head injury before the age of 4 is fine because other parts of the brain can compensate for lost function o Human development is multi dispensary 01 27 2015 Influences on a person development on page 5 Normative age graded o Includes events similar because of your age o Normative typical for all people of the same age o Must people go to school at 5 and graduate highschool at 18 Normative history graded o Influences on you because of your history common to people of the same generation o Ex 9 11 pearl harbor JFK assassination Nonnormative life events o Non normative doesn t occur to everyone o Unusual occurance that only occurs in your life o Ex mom dies when you are 11 years old Development is influenced by our culture Socioleconomic status Your social class Related to your income and your educational levels Social policy Affordable care act Obama care In 2009 20 of kids were living in families below the poverty line Graph of page 9 Stressors in life of kids in poor conditions Poor kids are exposed to more stressors than kids in other groups Development social neuroscience Development cognitive neuroscience Pg 11 developmental periods Prenatal Pregnancy Early childhood 25 months to 5 year Middle and late childhood 6 to 11 years old Adolescence 10 12 to 18 21 Infancy Birth to 24 months o Varies because of puberty and when people start it Young adulthood 20 to 40 o Emerging adult hood Middle age 40 to 65 Late adulthood 66 to death o Longest period of development 85 Old old Government term Different terms for age Chronological age o Actual age in days month and years Social age o What is going on in your life that causes you to be more or less mature compared to people your own age o Ex difference in single mother going to college compared to just a college student with no family Psychological age o Your adaptive capabilities compared to other people your age Adaptive skills Being able to feed dress and bathe yourself Biological age o How your body is handling life Muscle tone and fitness level Must people have the most life satisfaction when they are older Children are gone 3 debates in psychology Nature genetic code vs nurture environment and life experiences Stability vs change o Stability refers to the degree to which characteristic have persisted over time Believe that genetics is very important Ex Whatever temperament you are born with is stable throughout your life o Change Sometimes change Feel that environment is very important Continuity vs discontinuity Caterpillar to Buttefly o Do you develop continuously or in rapid stages 5 theories Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Psychological stages of sexual stages Psychsexual development Oral anal phallic latency gential and Erik Erikson Socio social theory talked about stages to development that spanned the entire lifespan o First major theory in psychology Cognitive Piaget Chart on page 18 and vygotsky and o information processing theory of cognitive development talks about how humans monitor information and how we develop strategies Behavioralist and social cognitive o BF Skinner Operant conditioning o Albert Bandurra Social cognitive Ethological Ho o Lorenz European zoologists o John Boulby Ecological o Bronfenbrenner Figure on page 23 o Came up with 5 systems Macro Micro Meso Chrono Exo Naturalistic research Ex What does the behavior look like 01 27 2015 Observationally learning Collect data to see what behavior looks like Correlational relationship Showing if there is a relationship between 2 things Positive Same direction 1 Negative Different directions 1 0 relationship No relationship 0 Correlation coefficient The number value that says the amount of correlation 1 to 1 Strong relationship or 60 to 1 Moderate relationship or 35 to 60 Weak relationship or below 35 Experimental research Did event A cause event B Controls groups Experiment groups Dependent variables What is effected by the independent variable Independent variables are what you change What you are counting or measuring Placebo effect Blind study Subject doesn t knows what he is getting Double blind study neither tester or subject knows what he is getting Research design Longitudinal research design Over time changes