Human Lifespan Theories

What cognitive development stage are you currently in (Piaget's Stages)?

• Formal operational

• Concrete operational

• Pre-operational

• Sensorimotor

A scheme can be changed by:

• the process of assimilation.

   

• comparing old information with new schemes.

   

• getting more complex as children age according to their genotype.

   

• the process of accommodation.

A theorist who believes that our environment and people surrounding us impact our development, believe in ____

• Nature

• Nurture

• Ideology

• Generativity

A criticism to Chomsky's LAD is...

• Language is affected by interactions with others and the environment

• There is no criticism, we all have a device that allows us to learn language

• People have different sized devices

What does Bowlby say??

• We form bonds with everyone

• Secure attachments set up for untrusting relationships in adulthood

• Disruption the bonding process has a negative impact on development​

  May cause: - Anxiety and difficulty in forming relationships

The stages of the social learning theory are Observe, Remember, ________, Reinforcement

What does Reinforcement do?

• It can be positive or negative which either encourages or discourages behaviour

• It reinforces things

Stress-Diathesis Model is a combination of nature and nurture

• True

• False

What does diathesis mean?

• an individual that becomes stressed in stressful situations

• The impact of stress on an individual

• an individual born with certain biological or genetic predispositions to mental illness

• When an individual has one or more mental illnesses

Genetic predispositions for a psychological disorder does NOT mean that they will definitely get a mental illness

• False, it's inherited so they will definitely get a mental illness

• True, it takes stressful situations and trauma to trigger it