Developmental: week 1

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1. What is the diathesis stress model?

  • A model showing the risk/ disposition to environmental stresses.
  • The susceptibility to a particular gene.
  • Child development rates of growth and intelligence.
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2. What are the central concerns in developmental psychology

  • Play behaviour, Effect of peers, Growth rate
  • Continuity, Sources of development, Plasticity
  • Cognitions, Physical activity, Social behaviour

3. What is the first stage of Flavells stage theory?

  • 1. When changes occur, they are rapid
  • 1. Stages distinguished by qualitative changes
  • 1. Stage transitions marked by other aspects of change
  • 1. Behavioural and physical changes are coherent.

4. What is plasticity?

  • A period during development to which there are influences on the development of children.
  • When critical and sensitive periods are highly analysed in child development
  • The degree to which, and the conditions under which, development is open to change and intervention.
  • How the environment can shape us and create new behaviours and cognitions.

5. What do family studies look at?

  • Behavioural versus Genetic sources of childhood development.
  • Similarities and dissimilarities between relatives according to degrees of relatedness.
  • Genetic studies focussing on Dizygotic and Monozyogotic twins

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