Chapter 2 How and Why People Develop and Learn

Which theory believes that a person's developmental stages should be based on what can be observed or seen in his or her behavior - not the unconscious mind which cannot be directly observed?

• Psychoanalytic

• Behaviorism

• Pedagogy

• Conditioning

What area/s of development do we study in Human Growth & Development

• physical

• social

• cognitive

• emotional

• all of the above

Part of a DNA molecule that determines individual traits.

• genetical

• genes

• scientific method

• geneology

Things people do and say or the way they act.

• observable behaviors

• behaviorism

• gene

• moral decisions

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

• social cognitive method

• scientific method

• ecological method

• scientist

Behaviors associated with emotional responses.

• naturalistic experiments

• classical conditioning

• psychosocial development

  stages

• ecological theory

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

• developmental theories

• descriptive studies

• psychosocial developmental stages

• behaviorism

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.

• developmental theories

• cross-sectional studies

• operant conditioning

• behaviorism

Behaviors that continue when reinforced.

• observable behaviors

• operant conditioning

• ecological theory

• developmental theories

Method of data collection used to keep all the variables that affect behavior the same except for one.

• manipulative experiments

• cognitive theories

• genetics

• behaviorism