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Ch.9: Life Span Development Flashcards

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The study of age- related changes in behavior, mental processes, and stages of growth from conception to death

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Developmental psychology

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The continuing influence of hereditary throughout heredity throughout development: age related physical and behavioral changes characteristic of a species

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Maturation

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A time of special sensitivity to specific types of learning which shapes the capacity for future development

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Critical period

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An inherited primitive form of rapid learning in which some infant animals follow and form an attachment to the first moving object they see or hear

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Imprinting (konrad Lorennz, baby geese)

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Discrete and qualitatively different from one another

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Stages

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Gradual but steady and quantitative changes

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Continuous pattern

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emphaze that measurments of personality in childhood are important predictors of adult personality

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Stability

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A research technique that measures individuals of various ages at one point in time and provides information about age difference

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Cross-sectional design

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A research design that measures a single individual or group of individuals over an extended period and gives information about age changes.

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Longitudinal design

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differences that result from specific histories of the age group studied

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cohorts effect

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different age groups

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cohorts

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The three stages of prenatal development are?

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Germinal period
Embryonic period
Fetal period

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From conception to implantation

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Germinal period

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From implantation to 8 weeks

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Embryonic period

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From 8 weeks to birth

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Fetal period

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An environmental agents that causes damages during the prenatal development

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Teratogen

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A combination of birth defects, including organ deformities, and mental, motor, and ratardation, that results from maternal alcohol consumption

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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The three key areas of change in earl childhood are

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Brain development
Motor Development
Sensory and Perceptual development

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The biological changes during adolescence that lead to an adult sized body and sexual maturity

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Puberty

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Maturation and hormone secretion cause rapid development of the ovaries,uterus, and vagina and the onset of

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menstruation (menarche)

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Male, the testes, scrotum and penis development, expects his first ejaculation

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Spermache

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Primary sex characteristics are

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Testes and ovaries

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Secondary sex characteristics are

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Growth of pubic hair, deepening of voice, facial hair

Growth of breast

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The cessation of menstrual cycle (woman)

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menopause

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Physical changes such as unexpected weight gain, graying of hair, decrease in libido (men)

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Andropause,(male climacteric)

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Prejudices or discrimination based on physical age

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Ageism

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_______ provided some of the first great demonstrations oh how children develop thinking and reasoning abilities, begins at “primitive” level. KNOWN for STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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Jean Piaget

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The cognitive structures, framework, or blueprints of knowledge, regarding objects, people, and situations which grow and differentiate with experience

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Schema

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Applying existing mental patterns(schema) to new informations: new info is then incorporated into existing schemas

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Assimilation

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The process of adjusting existing mental patterns (schems) or developing new ones to better fit with new information

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Accommodation

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_______ stage: Birth to approximately age 2

Schemas are developed through sensory and motor activities

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Sensorimotor stage

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An infant’s recognition that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched

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Object permanence

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_______ stage: Roughly ages 2 to 7
Ability to employ significant languageand to think symbolically
Lacks reversibility

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Preoperational stage

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Inability to consider another’s point of view

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Egocentric thinking

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Believing all things are living, animated

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Animistic thinking

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_______ stage: Beginning approximately age 7-11
Child can perform mental operations on concrete objects andunderstand reversibility and conservation, but thinking is tied to concrete, tangible objects and events

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Concrete operational stage

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Realizes that changes in shape or appearance can be reversed

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conservation

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_____ stage: Beginning around age 11 and older

Can now apply operations to abstract concepts and hypothetical situations

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Formal operational stage

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believe the are the center of other’s thoughts and attention

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Imaginary audience

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adolescents’ belief that they alone have insights or difficulties that no one understands or experiences

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Personal fable

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_______ emphasized the sociocultural influences on a child’s cognitive development

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Lev Vygotsky

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Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development, the area between what children can accomplish on their own and what they can accomplish with the help of other who are more competent

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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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A strong emotional bond with special others that endures over time

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Attachment

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the pleasurable, tactile sensations provided by a soft and cuddly parent is a powerful contributor to attachment

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Contact comfort

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Mary Ainsworth’s levels of attachment are

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Secure
Anxious/Ambivalent
Anxious/Avoidant
Disorganized/Disoriented

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Secure attachment

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explores and uses mom as safe base
moderate distress on separation from her
happy when she returns

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Anxious/ Ambivalent attachment

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very upset when mother leaves

shows mixed emotions when she returns

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Anxious/Avoidant attachment

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does not seek closeness or contact with mom

shows little to no emotions

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Disorganized/ Disoriented

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confused and exhibits avoidant and ambivalent attachment

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Four types of parenting style

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permissive-neglectful
permissive-indulgement
authoritarian
authoritative

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” i dont care about you or what you do”

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permissive neglectful

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“I care about you, and youre free to do what you like”

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Permissive indulgement

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” i dont care what you want, just do it my way or else!”

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Authoritarian

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“I really care about you, but there are rules and you need to be responsible”

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Authoritative

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Kohlberg’s stages of moral development

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Preconventional level
conventional leve;
postconventional level

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Preconvetional level is based on

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rewards and punishment

exchange of favors

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Conventionsl level is based on

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compliance with the rules

value of society, approval

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Postconventional level is based on

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personal developments of right and wrong

abstract principles and values that apply to all situations and societies

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Erikson’s theory that individuals pass through eight developmental stages, each involving specific crisis that must be succesfully resolved at a particular place in the life span

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psychosocial stages

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List the eight stages of psychosocial development

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trust/mistrust( birth to 1)
autonomy/shame and doubt (1-3)
initiative/guilt (3-6)
industry/inferiority (6-12)
identity/confusion(12-20)
intimacy/isolation(early adulthood)
generativity/stagnation(middle adult hood)
ego integrity/despair (senior)
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A psychological and sociocultural phenomenon referring to learned, sex-related thoughts, feelings, and actions of men and women

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gender

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A set of learned, societal expectations for thoughts, feelings, and actions considered “appropriate” for men and women, and expressed publicly by the individual

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Gender roles

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_________ emphasize the power of the immediate situation and obesrvable behaviors on gender role development by rewards and punishments, and watch and imitate behavior of others

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Social-learning theorist

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______ argue that children actively observe, interpret and judge the world around them. GENDER SCHEMAS

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Cognitive-developmental theorist

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Exhibiting both masculine and feminine traits

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Androgyny

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