E&T Ch. 6 Test

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

Changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.

• Cognitive development

• Socio-emotional development

• Physical development

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

Physical tasks involving small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.

• Fine-motor Skills

• Gross-motor Skills

Changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations develop from birth through older adulthood.

• Socio-emotional Development

• Physical Development

• Cognitive Development

• Human Development

Changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.

• Physical Development

• Cognitive Development

• Socio-emotional Development

Behaviors that continue when reinforced.

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• developmental conditioning

• hair conditioning

All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing.

• Cognition

• Cognitive Development

• Continuity

• Discontinuity

Physical tasks involving large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.

• Gross-motor Skills

• Fine-motor Skills

• Continuity

• Discontinuity

Behaviors associated with emotional responses.

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• developmental conditioning

• emotional conditioning