Altruism And Children,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Altruism And Children, Brizel Trinidad, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
No abstract provided.
Andreas Demetriou,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Andreas Demetriou, Benjamin Lowry, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
No abstract provided.
Assisted Living,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Assisted Living, Rachel Zachar, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
No abstract provided.
Groups And Development,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Groups And Development, Jason Jimenez, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
No abstract provided.
Word Learning Styles,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Word Learning Styles, Diana Hincapie, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
No abstract provided.
Vision In Infants,
2025
University of California, Riverside
Vision In Infants, Brianna Mcgee, Rachel Wu
Essays in Developmental Psychology
There is a great deal of visual development over the first year of life. Many aspects of vision undergo this dramatic change, including visual perception (the ability to see and interpret information), visual acuity (the clarity of our vision), and smooth pursuit (the ability to follow objects). These three aspects are fundamental to early visual experiences that facilitate typical cognitive development. This entry will provide a brief overview of visual perception, visual acuity, and smooth pursuit in human infants.
Learning,
2025
University of California, Riverside
Learning, Brianna Mcgee, Rachel Wu
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Learning is broadly defined as the acquisition or modification of behavior or knowledge through experience. While learning is perhaps most apparent within the context of students in school, learning begins from birth (perhaps even in the womb) and continues throughout the lifespan. Without the ability to learn from our experiences, we would not be able to function in society. Although there are many types of learning, this entry focuses on three common types. First, associative learning, or the ability to learn about the relationship between two objects or behaviors, is exhibited by human beings every day. Second, formal learning (learning …
Types Of Play,
2025
University of South Alabama
Types Of Play, Rebecca Mcmahon Giles
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Rather than using a universally agreed upon definition of play, the following list of characteristics, first presented in the widely cited Association of Childhood Education International position statement on play, "Play: A Necessity for All Children" (ACEI/Isenberg & Quisenberry, 1988), is used to distinguish play from non-play behaviors: intrinsically motivated and self-initiated; process oriented; non-literal and pleasurable; exploratory and active; and rule-governed. Types of play have been categorized according to both the degree of social participation (Parten, 1932) and the level of cognitive functioning (Piaget, 1962; Vygotsky, 1967).
Attention,
2025
University of California, Riverside
Attention, Brianna Mcgee, Rachel Wu
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Attention is a particularly tricky concept to study because it encompasses many different aspects. For example, attention can refer to general arousal, such as when someone is experiencing a scary event. Attention also can refer to prioritizing one event over another event, such as paying attention to your friend talking to you, and ignoring a stranger in the background. This type of attention is studied extensively in cognitive psychology. Attention also can refer to multi-tasking, when the focus of your attention is split among different events, such as when you are driving and fiddling with the radio. This entry provides …
Obesity,
2025
St. Louis University
Obesity, Sara D. Mcmullin, Eric A. Goedereis
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 in adults and above the 95th percentile for children based on age and sex norms. The prevalence of obesity across the lifespan has increased over the last several decades in the United States. Currently, 17% of children and 36% of adults in the United States meet these criteria, with higher prevalence among racial and ethnic minority groups. Childhood and adult obesity are associated with immediate and long-term medical, psychological, and cognitive consequences. Therefore, the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends all children and adults are …
Attention In Old Age,
2025
Idaho State University
Attention In Old Age, Anna C. Mccarrey
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Attention is the first step our brains take to actively process information from the environment. Our attentional capacity is limited, such that we cannot process all the sights, sounds, smells and feelings surrounding us all at once. Attention (along with memory) is one of the basic cognitive processes most impacted by growing older. In addition, attention is not a unitary process and different types of attention require more cognitive resources than others. Thus, not all attentional systems are subject to declines with age to the same degree.
Stages Of Labor,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Stages Of Labor, Ashleigh Lupton, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Labor, or the process through which a baby is born, is separated into three primary stages. The first stage begins at the onset of labor and ends when the cervix reaches a 10-centimeter dilation. This first stage is comprised of three sub-stages: early labor, active labor, and transition. The early labor phase begins at the onset of labor and ends when the women’s cervix is 3 centimeters dilated. This phase generally takes place over 8-12 hours at which point the cervix begins to open up (i.e., dilate) and thin out. During this phase, contractions, which are the uterine muscles tightening …
Intelligence- Hierarchical,
2025
California State University, Chico
Intelligence- Hierarchical, Brooke Maston, Donna Devaughn Kreskey
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Within the field of psychology, intelligence is usually defined using a psychometric approach. This approach relies on the use of psychological measurement, or standardized tests, to objectively measure the cognitive processes and skills of an individual and compare them to the processes and skills of a norm group that represents the general population. Historically, psychologists who studied human intelligence fell into two major groups. One group, which included psychologists such as Charles Spearman, Phillip Vernon, and John Carroll, favored a single general factor comprised of a variety of specific factors to explain intelligence. The second group, which included psychologists such …
Building Blocks Of Language: Speech Perception In Infants (Eimas Et Al., 1971),
2025
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Building Blocks Of Language: Speech Perception In Infants (Eimas Et Al., 1971), Sanjula Mahathantila, Jonathan B. Santo
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Language is a very important component of what makes humans, humans. Without language, we would not be able to communicate thoughts, feelings, or ideas. Learning a native language starts at infancy and continues well into our adult lives. However, the beginning of learning a language at infancy might not be as simple as it seems. In adulthood, when hearing a foreign language it might be hard to figure out where one word stops and where another begins. Infants are doing the same thing, except on a much different scale.
Michael Rutter,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Michael Rutter, Benjamin Lowry, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Michael Rutter was born August 15th, 1933 to Winifred and Llewellyn Rutter in Lebanon, where his father was working as a doctor. He returned with his parents to England when he was 3-years-old. In 1940, at the age of 6-years-old, Rutter and his younger sister were evacuated to North America due to fear of German invasion of the British Isles. He and his sister were taken in by different families in the United States and only living together a few months near the end of their four year stay abroad. Rutter denied feeling separated from his parents during his stay …
Battered Woman Syndrome,
2025
University of South Alabama
Battered Woman Syndrome, Emma Lathan, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) is a psychological and sociological construct defined as a set of symptoms that develop as coping skills and/or survival mechanisms for repeated physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse by an intimate partner (Walker, 2017). Symptom criteria include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) indicators of fear, hypervigilance, avoidance, and intrusive memories of abuse, in addition to disrupted interpersonal relationships, body image distortion and/or physical health complaints, and sexual dysfunction. Although historically BWS was considered a female syndrome, it is now known that both men and women can experience severe victimization by intimate partner violence (IPV; i.e., contact sexual violence, …
Bowlby, John,
2025
West Virginia University
Bowlby, John, Corey Lieneman, Morgan Simpson, Cheryl B. Mcneil
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (February 27, 1907, London, England – September 2, 1990, Isle of Skye, Scotland) was a child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist renowned for his attachment theory. Bowlby was interested in how the caregiver-child bond impacted the child’s personality and emotional bonds formed later in life.
Kieran Egan,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Kieran Egan, Benjamin Lowry, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Kieran Egan was born in 1942 in Clomel, Ireland. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 from the University of London. After graduating he was employed at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston upon Thames as a research fellow. Egan then began a Ph.D. program in philosophy of education from Stanford Graduate School of Education, but after two years he transferred to Cornell University and completed his degree in 1972. He then worked at Simon Frasier University as a professor of education.
Adolescence: Bio-Physiological Development,
2025
Liberty University
Adolescence: Bio-Physiological Development, Theresa C. Allen
Essays in Developmental Psychology
The Wonder Years was a television comedy-drama that aired for six seasons from 1988 to 1993. It was a series on the coming of age…life through the eyes of an adolescent boy, Kevin Arnold, living in the late 1960’s - early 70’s. From surviving the indignities of the junior high gym locker room, to discovering the joys of the opposite sex, to struggling to cut parental apron strings, a nation watched Kevin Arnold try to navigate the ever-changing waters of puberty, friendships, love and lust, and the uncertainty of tumultuous social times while trying to forge a sense of self …
Handedness,
2025
Nova Southeastern University
Handedness, Huda Abu-Suwa, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Handedness is a poorly understood phenomenon, that can be defined in many ways. Some consider handedness to be the hand that is used for writing. Others define handedness as the hand that is preferred to be used, or the hand that performs better on manual tasks (Markou, Ahtam & Papadatou-Pastou, 2017). Individuals are generally considered to be right-handed or left-handed, however some individuals may be ambidextrous, or able to use both hands. Finally, some consider handedness to be along a continuum, and not summed into these three categories.
