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environmentalism |
person arrives "blank slate" |
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predeterminism |
preprogrammed, locates development inside the person (the child is developing according to nature's plan) |
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interactionism |
interacting person and environment (child is the apprentice) |
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mechanistic |
machine is the explanatory metaphor (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) |
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rationalistic |
focuses on the reasons and thinking behind behavior (humans are rational thinking creatures) |
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contextualist |
focuses on the development on how it occurs on context (co-constructive reality between the person and setting) |
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interpsychological then intrapsychological |
any higher level psychological functionary occurs twice or on two planes (inter- intra-) |
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zone of proximal development |
the distance where someone can perform independently and where they can perform when they have help from an experienced other |
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gibson's perceptual development theory |
the child is seen as an active perceiver |
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issue of affordance |
objects in your environment provide opportunities of certain behaviors and limits for other behaviors |
