Human Development: A Lifespan Perspective
Aging
Organizational, neurophysiological, and biochemical changes independent of environmental conditions, experience, and practice.
Experience
Environmental events that allow certain skills to develop.
Sealed Content
Undisturbed characteristics and potential (e.g., the capacity to build something new).
Open Content
Acquired traits (e.g., language, intelligence) where potentialities are developed and operate fully.
Progressive Centralization
Continual improvement of individual functions.
Qualitative Changes
Transformations
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Social Learning Theories
Reciprocal Determinism and Interaction
There is a mutual interaction between stimulus and response agencies. The most important thing is what makes the body act upon stimuli. Some stimuli are biological, while others are fundamentally social; individuals assign social value to stimuli. The school investigating this is symbolic interactionism, a parallel and complementary approach. Stimuli influence us based on the value we assign them.
Bandura’s scheme attempts to explain human
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Feeling Parental Images
We can show how a child perceives paternal and maternal figures using test charts and CAT history, illustrating maternal image perception. We also explore how the child identifies with parental roles.
Professional Secrecy and Confidentiality
Testing material and interview content, including verbalizations, drawings, and play, must remain confidential, adhering to professional secrecy standards. Preverbal material requires the same discretion.
Interview Sequence and Anxiety
Structuring
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Introduction to Scientific Research in Health
Etymology: The term “research” originates from the Latin in (on) and vestigare (find, inquire, investigate, follow traces), meaning to find or describe something. In science, research is a systematic, controlled, and critical process to discover or interpret facts, phenomena, relationships, or laws.
Research Activity: Develops or contributes to generalizable knowledge, encompassing theories, principles, information, and data collection.
Theoretical Foundations
Scientific
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3.3. Deployment Models of Scientific Method in the Human Sciences: Bunge, Wallace.
As mentioned above, the scientific method developed by Galileo and Bacon has undergone numerous modifications and adaptations for greater efficiency and responsiveness to scientific developments. The literature abounds with methodologies that mostly align with the phases of the method and its required assumptions, often adapted to specific research areas. Among these, we will briefly present Mario Bunge’s model and
Read MoreMemory and Cognitive Development in Children: Strategies and Stages
Memory. It is the cognitive process related to the retention and processing of information. Flavell: Children from infancy do not spontaneously produce effective mnemonic strategies, but they can benefit if trained. Stage: Childhood Memory recognition is improved and perfected at this stage; short-term memory is also better. Types of memory strategies: Repetition (review) and organization. These strategies are carried out with a purpose: memory. Differences by age: 5-6-year-old children do not usually
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