chapter 1-4 Flashcards
what did benjamin spock teach?
no excessive demands on children
what did John b Watson teach?
Rigid feeding and toilet training schedules.
who said rigidity ensures that children will become emotionally “hard”
John B watson
study of genetic contributions to behavior or traits
behavior genetics
affects a broad range of behaviors
heredity
context in which each child develops
ecology
scientist that talks abiut ecology
Urie bronfenbrenner
world is made up of independent people whose achievements and responsibilities are individual not collective
individualism
emphasis on group identity, sharing, and group decision- making
collectivism
behavior is governed by unconscious as well as conscious processes.
pyschoanalytic theories
scientist that talks about pyschosexual stages
sigmund freud
talks about psychosocial stages
eric erikson
talks about how nature of the human organism is to adapt to its environment
jean piaget
talks about complex forms of thinking have their origins in social interactions
lev vygotsky
talks about classical conditioning
Ivan pavlov
process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem
scaffolding
a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus
classical conditioning
discovered social cognitive theory
Albert Bandura
observational learning or modeling
social cognitive theory
extensive study of one culture based on observation
ethnography
protection of animal rights and human subjects
research ethics
5 rules of research ethics
- protection from harm
- informed consent
- confidentially
- knowledge of results
- protection from deception
when a ovum and sperm connect what do they make?
a zygote
process of making a zygote
conception
how many pairs of chromosomes are there
23
what are ovums and sperms known as?
gametes
human chromosome that has the most problems
Human chromosome #20
toxins like smoking, alchol, heroine and marjuana
teratogens
when the two sets of instructions are the same at any given locus
homozygous pair
when the two sets of instructions are different at any given locus
heterozygous pair
many genes blend together to increase
polygenic inheritance
expression of traits that are influenced by both genes and environment
multifactorial patterns
some genes are biochemically marked at the time ova and sperm develop
genomic imprinting
genes passed only from mother to child
mitochondrial inheritance
stages of prenatal development
germinal stage - embryonic stage - fetal stage
the germinal stage is the
migration of the zygote
embryonic stage is when
the foundation of all body orgabs are formed and all major organs and systems begin ti develop
the fetus stage is
the refinement of all organ systems and age of viability
rapid development of neurons between the 10th and 18th week of destation
neuronal proliferation
the movement of neurons to specialized regions of the brain
neuronal migration
diferences in prenatal development for boys and girls
girls slightly faster skeletal development
boys are slightly heavier and longer at birth and are more vulnerable to prenatal problems
causes mild to severe intellectual disability
fragile X syndrome
viral disease that has symptoms like mild measles
rubella
substances that cause damage to embryo
teratogens
the three stages of birth
- Dilation and effacement
- birth of the baby
- delivery of the placenta and umbilical cord (afterbirth)
cesarean section is
a c section and a wat to deliver a child by cutting through the wall of the mother’s abdomen
optimal birthweight is
6.6 to 11 pounds
regulates breathing, heart and blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing and swallowing.
medulla
portion of the central nervous system associated with vision hearing motor control sleep wake arousal and temperature regulation
midbrain
reflex when a child feels its falling
moro reflex
when the baby close its fingers and toes when touched
babinski reflex
sleeping with the child
cosleeping
uncontrollable crying last for more than 3 hours per day disappears at 3-4 months
colic
development proceeds from head to toe
cephalocaudal
development proceeds from trunk out towards the fingers
proximodistal
baby organizes experiences into expectancies
schematic learning
built up over many exposures to particular experiences
schemas
inborn predisposition that form foundations of personality
temperament
superior nutritionally
breast feeding
death of a seemingly healthy baby in its sleep, due to an apparent spontaneous cessation of breathing
sudden infant death syndrome (sids)
process of coating the axon of each neruon with a fatty coating called myelin
myellination
fatty coating that protects the neuron and helps it conduct signals more efficiently
myelin
two halves of the human brain are not exactly alike
lateralization
ability to identify and act on relationships of objects in space
spatial perception
ability to infer rules from and make predictions about the movements of objects in space
spatial cognition
relating to the interrelation of social factors and individual thought and behavior
psychosocial
relation of organisms to one another and their surroundings
ecology
passing of physicla or mental characteristics genetically from generation to another
heredity