PSYC 2076 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Penis Envy, Unconscious Mind, Tabula Rasa
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These conscientious children did grow up to be conscientious adults and lived a longer life (less suicide, drugs, alcohol, etc. ) Early experiences are like the foundation of the house later experiences fill it out. Examples: secure attachment predicts later romantic relationships, but so do relationships with peers later in life: development systematic changes that occur as we move from birth to young adulthood, domains of development, physical, cognitive, social-emotional. Issues of development study: nature (biology) vs. nurture (environment, continuous vs. stage-like development, stability vs. change over time, adaptive and maladaptive development v. Individual differences: diversity, the role of the child, research methods, observations ii. Biological processes or environmental processes: psychoanalytic theory: sigmund freud i. Integrity vs. despair: behaviorism, john b. watson and classical conditioning, theory: we are born a tabula rasa (blank slate, our environment determines our behavior, classical conditioning.
