EDPS 350- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDPS 350
• Professor: Swanson

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Important things: ethnicity, gender, developmental periods, prenatal period. Id: ego, super ego, cognitive theories, primarily unconscious thoughts, piaget"s theory of (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. It has 4 stages: organization and adaptation are important, vygotsky"s so(cid:272)io(cid:272)ultural (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e, emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development, erikso(cid:374)"s 8 stages psy(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Information processing theory: emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it, pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s classi(cid:272)al co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (reward, dogs salivating when food presented, skinner operant conditioning (punishment, ba(cid:374)dura"s so(cid:272)ial cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e theory. Behavior, environment, and cognition, are the key factors in development: ethological (ethology, stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods, konrad lorenz. If they started crying when you smiled at him/her you were likely to walk away. If they smiled and giggled you are likely to continue to smile at the baby: passive, environment is inherited, you not only inherit genes from parents you inherit environments.