Child and Adolescent Psychology Chp-1 Worksheet

Study of processes of change and stability in human children.
Change mental abilities: learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning and creativity.
Society shared perceptions or assumption.
Change in emotions, personality and social relationship.
Unfolding of universal natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.
Two generational household unit consisting of 1 or 2 parents and their biological children, adopted, stepchildren.
Customs, traditions, beliefs, values, language and physical products passed on from adults to children.
Group of people born at about the same time.
Inborn characteristics inherited from biological parents.
Change in number or amount; height, weight or size of vocabulary.
Change in structure, organization; change nonverbal to verbal communication.
Piaget adjustment to new information about the environment
Piaget organized patterns of thought and behavior used in particular situations.
Experimenter has direct control.
Possible explanations used to predict the outcome of research.
Learning based on association of behavior with its consequences.