Ch 2 How and Why People Develop & Learn

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

• Developmental Theories

• Descriptive Studies

• Ecological Theory

• All of the above

Part of a DNA molecule that determines individual traits.

• Psychoanalytic theory

• Genes

• Operant Conditioning

• Ecological Theory

The study of genes

• Cognitive Theories

• Social Cognitive theory

• None of the these

• Developmental Theories

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

• Developmental Theories

• Operant Conditioning

• Observable Behaviors

• Naturalistic Experiments

Personal choices that evaluate what is right and what is wrong.

• Moral Decisions

• Cross-Sectional Studies

• Scientific Method

• Descriptive Studies

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

• Longitutinal Studies

• Manipulative

  Experiments

• Behaviorism

• All of these

Things people do and say or the way they ac

• Scientific Methods

• Classical Conditioning

• Manipulative Experiments

• Observable Behaviors

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

• Ecological Theory

• Naturalistic Experiments

• Cross-Sectional Studies

• All of these

Theory based on the assumption that people are affected by rewards and punishments, but that their reaction to rewards and punishments are filtered by their own perceptions, thoughts, and motivations.

 developmental theories 

• Descriptive Studies

• Social Cognitive Theory

• Hypothesis

• Developmental Theories

Behaviors that continue when reinforced

• Genetics

• Operant Conditioning

• Developmental Theories

• All of these