Psychology 2320A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anxiety Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System
22 Apr 2015
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Holistic views of children: the judgements of whether behavior is deviant or not depend on other factors either external or internal. Look at external factors such as culture or internal factors such as cognitive development: need a broader understanding. Directedness of children: directedness is that children take an active role in shaping the environment, children can sometimes have a large effect on parent behavior. Important when looking at early environmental influences of child developments. Continuity: homotypic continuity: behavior (ie. disorder) remains stable in form over time, eg. Adolescent depression predicts depression in adulthood: heterotypic continuity: behavior (ie. disorder) changes it form across time, eg. Childhood anxiety predicts depression in adolescence: more common than homotypic o should look at shared causal influences in etiology. If there is heterotypic continuity between anxiety and depression we: multifinality, diverse outcomes can result from a similar starting point, a similar early risk leads to many different outcomes, equifinality, eg.
