PSY 324 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Confounding, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Meta-Analysis
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Provide organizing frameworks for our observations of children: they give meaning to the things we see. Serve as a basis for practical action: needs research support, once we understand, we can improve. Subjected to scientific verification: replication over time. No single theory covers all aspects of child development. Emerging adulthood (18 to 25): transition from adolescence to adulthood, a phenomenon of industrialized nations, have not fully assumed adult roles, exploration of love, career, personal values. Continuous: a process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with. Discontinuous: a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times. Qualitative changes in thinking, feelings, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development. Climbing a staircase: each step is a more mature, reorganized way of functioning. Nature: genetic factors are most important in influencing development: biological givens .
