NURS103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Language Acquisition, Teratology, Health Promotion
25 Mar 2017
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Accommodation: process of adapting ways of thinking to a new experience or new information. Assimilation: process of making sense of new information in comparison with what is already known. Autonomous stage: morality, moral judgements are based on mutual respect for the rules. Biophysical developmental theories: describe and explain how the physical body grows and changes. Bowlby"s attachment and separation theory: the conflict between attachment and separation needs to be resolved to produce health social and emotional developmental outcomes across the lifespan. Cognitive developmental theories: focuses on reasoning and thinking process including the changes in how people perform intellectual operations. Contextual tradition: focus on the relationship between individual and his/her social context. Conventional stage: children follow the rules set up by people authority, such as their parents, teachers. Developmental health: is defined as physical and mental health. Dialectic tradition: all developmental theories are considered mutually interactive. Differentiation: process by which cells or structures refine their characteristics.
