ashley's psych notes

Question 1

study of how and why people change over the course of a life span

Answer 1

developmental psychology

Question 2

the prenatal stage is split into the

Answer 2

germinal, embryonic, and fetal stages

Question 3

nature vs. nurture =

Answer 3

genetics vs. environment

Question 4

1st stage of development

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conception

Question 5

3rd stage of development

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neonatal

Question 6

stage where lots of reflexive things going on such as rooting, sucking, stepping, grapsing, swallowing

Answer 6

neonatal

Question 7

how old are babies when they begin to smile

Answer 7

6 weeks

Question 8

what stage involves mimicry

Answer 8

neonatal

Question 9

average age at which skills are achieved

Answer 9

developmental norm

Question 10

biological process that unfolds as a person gets older

Answer 10

maturation

Question 11

relaxed and tolerable of stranger =

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secure attachment

Question 12

infant experiences determine how brains grow

Answer 12

headgrowth

Question 13

instincitve attraction to first moving object an organism sees - in birds

Answer 13

imprinting

Question 14

playing around each other but not with each other

Answer 14

parallel play

Question 15

network of same age group or friends

Answer 15

peer group

Question 16

sense of independence

Answer 16

autonomy

Question 17

process by which children learn attitudes that are appropriate for their culture

Answer 17

socialization

Question 18

girl knows she is a girl

Answer 18

gender identity

Question 19

realization that gender does not change

Answer 19

gender constancy

Question 20

piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development

Answer 20

sensory motor (0-2)
preoperational ((2-7)
conccrete operational
formal operational

Question 21

charactertiics of the sensory motor stage

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object permance
goal directed behavior
mental representations

Question 22

awareness that an object continues to exist when out of sight

Answer 22

object permanence

Question 23

using association images or symbols to remember things

Answer 23

mental representations

Question 24

when a kid can keep a goal in mind to direct their behavior

Answer 24

goal directed behavior

Question 25

characteristics of the preoperational stage

Answer 25

fantasy play/ symbolic gesture
egocentric
animistic thinking
centration

Question 26

difficulty seeing things from other people’s perspectives

Answer 26

egocentric

Question 27

inanimate object come to life

Answer 27

animistic thinking

Question 28

kids are unable to undrerstand the big picture

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centration

Question 29

characteristics on concrete operational stage

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more flexible on thinking

conservation, complex schemas

Question 30

who came up with the theory of indentity crisis

Answer 30

james marcia

Question 31

adolescnese comprises of

Answer 31

puberty/ sexual maturation

Question 32

who came up with identity v.s. role confusion

Answer 32

erikson

Question 33

4 stages of an identity crisis

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idnetity achievement
identity foreclosure
moratorium
identity diffusion

Question 34

idnetity achievement is parallel with

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success

Question 35

identity foreclosure is parallel with

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premature

Question 36

moratorium is parallel with

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active

Question 37

identity diffusion s parallel with

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avoidance