Unit 2: How and Why People Develop and Learn

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person's environment.

• Ecological theory

• Ethological theory

• developmental theories

• social cognitive theory

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person's biology.

• ethological theory

• ecological theory

• developmental theory

• cognitive theory

Ideas about how people process information, think, and learn.

• cognitive theories

• psychoanalytic theory

• social cognitive theory

• developmental theory

Means of increasing knowledge by observing, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and formulating a theory.

• scientific method

• hypothesis

• research

• naturalistic experiments

Theory based on the belief that a person's developmental stage should be based on what can be observed or seen in his or her behavior rather than making assumptions about what cannot be directly observed.

• behaviorism

• classical conditioning

• observable behavior

• descriptive studies

Prediction about something that can be tested.

• Hypothesis

• Genes

• Longitudinal studies

• Scientific method

Behaviors associated with emotional responses.

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• developmental conditioning

• emotional conditioning

Behaviors that continue when reinforced.

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• developmental conditioning

• hair conditioning

Comprehensive explanation about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time.

• Developmental theories

• Mental theories

• Creative theories

• Psychoanalytic theories

Method of date collection used to only observe existing groups and record observations.

• Naturalistic experiments

• Manipulative experiments

• Scientific experiment

• Observational experiment