Chapter 1-3

Question 1

Development

Answer 1

pattern of change that begins at conception

Question 2

Lifespan perspective

Answer 2

multidimensional and influenced through factors

Question 3

Biological Processes

Answer 3

produce changes one’s physical nature

Question 4

Cognitive processes

Answer 4

changes in thoughts, intelligence, and language

Question 5

Socioemotional Processes

Answer 5

changes in one’s relationships with other people, emotions, and personality

Question 6

Developmental periods

Answer 6

Prenatal, infancy, early childhood

Question 7

Developmental Patterns of Aging (Schaie)

Answer 7

Normal, pathological, successful

Question 8

Developmental Issues

Answer 8

Nature, stability, continuity

Question 9

Psychoanalytic Theories

Answer 9

primarily unc and heavily colored by emotion

Question 10

Freud Psychoanalytic

Answer 10

Oral stage, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Question 11

Piaget

Answer 11

using cognition to adapt to the world

Question 12

Vygotsky

Answer 12

sociocultural

Question 13

BF Skinner

Answer 13

operant conditioning

Question 14

Alberta Bandura

Answer 14

Social Cognitive Theory

Question 15

Ethological Theory

Answer 15

behavior is influenced by biology

Question 16

Ecological Theory

Answer 16

environment is important

Question 17

Natural Selection

Answer 17

only adaptive individuals survive and reproduce

Question 18

Evolutionary Psychology

Answer 18

survival of the fittest

Question 19

Chromosomes

Answer 19

made of DNA

Question 20

DNA

Answer 20

genetic information

Question 21

Genes

Answer 21

units of hereditary information that contain DNA

Question 22

Genotype

Answer 22

actual genetic material

Question 23

Phenotype

Answer 23

observed characteristics

Question 24

Behavior genetics

Answer 24

studies that impact of heredity and environment on development

Question 25

Epigenetic view

Answer 25

development is a interchange between heredity and the environment

Question 26

Periods of pregnancy

Answer 26

Germinal, embryonic, fetal

Question 27

Germinal

Answer 27

baby is a zygote, 2 weeks after pregnancy

Question 28

Embryonic

Answer 28

2 months after conception, baby called an embryo

Question 29

Fetal

Answer 29

end of pregnancy, baby is called fetus

Question 30

Neural tube

Answer 30

forms 18a24 days after conception

Question 31

Teratogen

Answer 31

any agent that can cause a physical birth defect(Alcohol, caffine)

Question 32

Birth process (stage 1)

Answer 32

cervix dilates, contractions start

Question 33

Birth process (stage 2)

Answer 33

babys head moves through the cervix and birth canal till baby is born

Question 34

Birth process (stage 3)

Answer 34

afterbirth: delivery of placenta and umbilical cord

Question 37

NBAS test

Answer 37

test done after birth to assess neurological development

Question 38

Preterm

Answer 38

prior to 37 weeks

Question 39

Postpartum period

Answer 39

lasts for six weeks after childbirth