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Ch 3 - Human Development Flashcards

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The study of the normal changes in behaviour that occur across the lifespan.

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What is developmental psychology?

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The transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parents to offspring through genes.

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What is heredity (“nature”)?

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A molecular structure that contains coded genetic information.

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What is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?

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Rodlike structures in the cell nucleus that house an individual’s genes.

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What are chromosomes?

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Areas on a strand of DNA that carry hereditary information.

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What are genes?

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Problems caused by defects in the genes or by inherited characteristics.

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What are genetic disorders?

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A gene whose influence will be expressed each time that the gene is present.

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What is a dominant gene?

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A gene whose influence will be expressed only when it is paired with a second recessive gene of the same type.

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What is a recessive gene?

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Personal traits or physical properties that are influenced by many genes working in combination.

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What are polygenic characteristics?

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The sum of all external conditions affecting development, including especially the effects of learning.

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What is environment (“nurture”)?

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A harmful substance that can cause birth defects.

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What is teratogen?

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Defects that originate during prenatal development in the womb.

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What are congenital problems?

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A collection of conditions occurring in children whose mothers consumed alcohol during pregnancy.

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What is fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)?

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During development, a period of increased sensitivity to environmental influences. It also is a time during which certain events must take place for normal development to occur.

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What is the sensitive period?

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In development, the loss or withholding of normal stimulation, nutrition, comfort, love, and so forth; a condition of absence.

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What is deprivation?

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In development, deliberately making an environment more stimulating, nutritional, comforting, loving, and so forth.

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What is enrichment?

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The study of changes in organisms that are caused by modifications to gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.

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What is epigenetics?

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The physical growth and development of the body, brain, and nervous system.

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What is maturation?

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Biologically defined period during which a person matures sexually and becomes capable of reproduction.

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What is puberty?

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The culturally defined period between childhood and adulthood.

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What is adolescence?

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Area of psychology concerned with changes in emotions and social relationships.

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What is socioemotional development?

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Smiling elicited by a social stimulus, such as seeing a parent’s face.

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What is a social smile?

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A conflict between personal impulses and the social world.

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What is a psychosocial dilemma?

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Emotional needs for care, love, and positive relationships with others.

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What are affectional needs?

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A substitute mother (in animal research, often an inanimate object or a dummy).

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What is a surrogate mother?

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A pleasant and reassuring feeling that human and animal infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm, usually their mothers.

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What is contact comfort?

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Distress displayed by infants when they are separated from their parents or principal caregivers.

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What is separation anxiety?

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General pattern of attention, arousal, and mood that is evident from birth.

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What is temperament?

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Emotional bonding between an infant and its caregivers that results from infants’ feelings of security with the caregiver in times of stress or uncertainty.

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What is attachment?

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A stable and positive emotional bond.

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What is secure attachment?

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An anxious emotional bond marked by a tendency to avoid reunion with a parent or caregiver.

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What is insecure-avoidant attachment?

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An anxious emotional bond marked by both a desire to be with a parent or caregiver and some resistance to being reunited.

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What is insecure-ambivalent attachment?

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Identifiable patterns of parental caretaking and interaction with children.

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What are parental styles?

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Parents who enforce rigid rules and demand strict obedience to authority.

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What are authoritarian parents?

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The use of physical punishment or coercion to enforce child discipline.

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What is power assertion?

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Withholding affection to enforce child discipline.

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What is withdrawal of love?

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Regarding oneself as a worthwhile person; a positive evaluation of oneself.

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What is self-esteem?

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Parents who give little guidance, allow too much freedom, or do not require the child to take responsibility.

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What are permissive parents?

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Parents who supply firm and consistent guidance combined with love and affection.

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What are authoritative parents?

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A socially accepted period of extended adolescence that is now quite common in Western and Westernized societies.

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What is emerging adulthood?

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The resumed hereditary readiness of humans to learn certain skills, such as how to use language or a readiness to behave in particular ways.

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What is a biological predisposition?

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In early language development, behaviours, such as touching, vocalizing, gazing, or smiling, that allow nonverbal interaction and turn-taking between parent and child.

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What are signals?

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A pattern of speech used when talking to infants, marked by a higher-pitched voice; short, simple sentences; repetition; slower speech; and exaggerated voice inflections.

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What is motherese (parentese)?

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A mental structure composed of an organized learned body of knowledge or skills about a particular topic, according to Piaget.

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What is a schema?

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The application of established schema to new objects or problems, according to Piaget.

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What is assimilation?

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Modification of an established schema to fit a new object or problem, according to Piaget.

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What is accommodation (learning)?

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Piaget’s initial stage of development, when the infant’s mental activity is only sensory perception and motor skills.

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What is the sensorimotor stage?

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Recognizing that physical things continue to exist, even when they are no longer visible.

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What is object permanence?

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Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development, characterized by the use of symbols and illogical thought.

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What is the preoperational stage?

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The mental ability to change the shape or form of a substance (such as clay or water) and to perceive that its volume remains the same.

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What is transformation (Piagetian)?

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The belief that everyone sees exactly what you see in the physical world, or that they think about the world in the same way that you do.

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What is egocentrism?

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The understanding that people have mental states, such as thoughts, beliefs, and intentions and that other people’s mental states can be different from one’s own.

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What is theory of mind?

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Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development, characterized by logical thought.

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What is the concrete operational stage?

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Piaget’s term for the awareness that physical quantities stay constant despite changes in shape or appearance.

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What is conservation?

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Piaget’s fourth stage of cognitive development, characterized by the ability to engage in thinking that includes abstract, theoretical, and hypothetical ideas.

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What is the formal operational stage?

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A term referring to the range of tasks that a child cannot yet master alone, but that she or he can accomplish with the guidance of a more capable partner.

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What is the zone of proximal develeopment?

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The process of adjusting instruction so that it is responsive to a beginner’s behaviour and supports the beginner’s efforts to understand a problem or gain a mental skill.

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What is scaffolding?

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The development of values that, along with appropriate emotions and cognitions, guide responsible behaviour.

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What is moral development?

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Moral thinking based on the consequences of one’s choices and actions (punishment, reward, or an exchange of favours).

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What is preconventional moral reasoning?

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Moral thinking based on a desire to please others or to follow accepted rules and values.

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What is conventional moral reasoning?

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Moral thinking based on carefully examined and self-chosen moral principles.

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What is postconventional moral reasoning?

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