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Chapter-10 Human Development Flashcards

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Development psychology

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Is the study of how behaviour changes over the lifespan

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Post hoc fallacy

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False assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event

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Cross-sectional design

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Research design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time

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Cohort Effect

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Effect observed in a sample of participants that that results from individuals in the sample growing up at the same time

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Longitudinal design

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Research design that examines development in the same group of people on multiple occasions over time

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Two myths concerning development

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  1. Infant determinism
  2. Childhood fragility
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Infant determinism

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The widespread assumption that extremely early experiences (especially in the first three years of life) are almost always more influential than later experiences in shaping us as adults

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Childhood fragility

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Holds that children are delicate little creatures who are easily damaged

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Gene environment Interaction

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Situation in which the effects of genes depend on the environment in which they are expressed

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Nature via nurture

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Children with certain genetic predispositions often seek out and create their own experiences

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Gene expression

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Activation or deactivation of genes by environmental experiences throughout development

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Prenatal

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Prior to birth

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Development of a baby

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  1. Stage 1 (germinal stage)
  2. Stage 2 (embryonic stage)
  3. Stage 3 (fetal stage)
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Zygote

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Fertilized egg

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Blastocyst

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Hall of identical cells early in pregnancy that have not yet begun to take on any specific function in a body part

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Embryo

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Second to eighth week of prenatal development, during which limbs, facial features and major organs of the body take form

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Fetus

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Period of prenatal development from ninth week until birth after all major organs are established and physical maturation is the primacy change

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Three ways that fetal development can be distributed

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  1. Exposure to hazardous environmental influences
  2. Biological influences resulting from genetic disorders or errors in cell duplication during cell division
  3. Premature birth
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Teratogens

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An environmental factor that can exert a negative impact on prenatal development

During pregnancy can cause harm

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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

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Condition resulting from high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure, causing learning disabilities, physical growth, retardation, facial malformations and behavioural disorders

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Genetic disorders

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Genetic disorders or random errors in cell division are a second adverse influence or prenatal development

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Motor behaviour

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Bodily motion that occurs as a result of self-initiated force that moves the bones and muscles

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Infant motor development

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Infants are born with a large set of autonomic motor behaviours (reflexes), important for survival needs

  • such as sucking and rooting reflexes (eating)
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Adolescence

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The transition between childhood and adulthood commonly associated with the teenage years

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Puberty

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The achievement of sexual maturation resulting in the potential to reproduce

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Primary sex characteristic

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A physical feature such as the reproductive organs and genitals that distinguish the sexes

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Includes sex differentiating characteristics that do not relate directly to reproduction, such as breast enlargement in girls, deepening voices in boys, and pubic hair in both sexes

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Menarche

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Start of menstruation in girls

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Spermarche

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First ejaculation in boys

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Menopause

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The termination of menstruation, marking the end of a women’s reproductive potential

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Cognitive development

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Study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate and remember

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Assimilation

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Piaget process of absorbing new experiences into current knowledge structures

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Accommodation

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Piaget process of altering a belief to make it more compatible with experience

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4 stages of Piaget’s stages of development

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  1. Sensorimotor
  2. Preoperational stage
  3. Concrete operations
  4. Formal operations
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  1. Sensorimotor stage
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Is characterized by a focus on the here and now without the ability to represent experiences mentally

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Object permanence

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The understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view

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  1. Preoperational stage
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The ability to construct mental representations of experience but not yet perform operations on them

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Egocentrism

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Inability to see the world from other’s perspective

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Conservation

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Piagetian task requiring children to understand that despite a transformation in the physical presentation of an amount, the amount remains the same

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Concrete operations stage

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Characterized by the ability to perform mental operations on physical event only

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Formal operations stage

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Characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now

Can understand logical concepts and abstract questions

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Scaffolding

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Vygotskian learning mechanism in which parents provide initial assistance in children’s learning but gradually remove structure as children become more independent

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Zone of proximal development

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Phase of learning during which children can benefit from instruction

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Theory of mind

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Ability to reason about what other people know or believe

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Stranger anxiety

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A fear of strangers, developing at 8 or 9 months of age

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Temperament

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Basic emotional style that appears early in development and is largely genetic in origin

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Attachment

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The strong emotional connection we share with those to whom we feel closest

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Contact comfort

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Positive emotional afforded by touch

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Monooperation bias

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Drawing conclusions on the basis of only a single measure

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Parenting styles

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  1. Permissive
  2. Authoritarian
  3. Authoritative
  4. Uninvolved
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Permissive

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Tend to be lenient, little discipline, very affectionate

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Authoritarian

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Very strict, punishing, little affection

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Authoritative

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Supportive but set clear and firm limits

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Uninvolved

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Neglectful and ignoring

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Average expectable environment

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Environment that provides children with basic needs for affection and discipline

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Gender identity

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Individuals’ sense of being male or female

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Gender role

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A set of behaviours that tend to be associated with being male or female

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Identity

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Our sense is who we are, and our life goals and priorities

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Psychosocial crisis

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Dilemma concerning an individual’s relations to other people

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Emerging adulthood

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Period of life between the ages of 18 and 25 during which many aspects of emotional development, identity and personality become solidified

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Midlife crisis

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Supposed phase of adulthood characterized by emotional distress about the aging process and an attempt to regain youth

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Empty-nest syndrome

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Alleged period of depression in mothers following the departure of their grown children from the home

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Biological age

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Estimate of a persons age in terms of biological functioning

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Psychological age

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A persons, mental attitude and agility and the capacity to deal with the stresses of an ever-changing environment

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Functional age

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A persons, ability to function in given role in society

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Social age

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Whether people behave in accord with the social behaviour appropriate for their age

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