Chapter 4 - 1st Half

Question 0

Zygote

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Fertilized egg-enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

Question 1

Developmental psychology

Answer 1

Branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

Question 2

Embryo

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Developing human organism from 2 weeks-8 weeks

Question 3

Fetus

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Developing human organism from 9 weeks to birth

Question 4

Teratogens

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Agents, such as chemicals and viruses that can cause harm to the fetus

Question 5

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Answer 5

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by mother drinking while pregnant

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Rooting reflex

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A baby’s tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn to that side in search of the nipple

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Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Question 8

Maturation

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Growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, uninfluenced by experience

Question 9

Schemes

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Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Question 10

Assimilation

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Interpreting ones new experience in terms of ones existing understandings (schemes)

Question 11

Accommodation

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Adapting ones current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

Question 12

Cognition

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Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating

Question 13

Sensorimotor stage

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Infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities (birth-2yrs)

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Object permanence

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Awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

Question 15

Preopertional stage

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Child learns to use language but doesn’t yet comprehend the mental operational of concrete logic (2yrs-6/7yrs)

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Conservation

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Principle that quantity stays the same despite changes in shape

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Egocentrism

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Preopertional Childs difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Theory of mind

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Peoples ideas about their own and others mental states (feelings, thoughts)

Question 19

Autism

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Disorders that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interactions, and understanding others’ states of mind

Question 20

Concrete operational stage

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Children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events 6/7yrs-11yrs)

Question 21

Formal operational stage

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Cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts (12yrs)

Question 22

Stranger anxiety

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Fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by 8 months old

Question 23

Attachment

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Emotional tie with another person

-child to mother

Question 24

Harry Harlow

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Dealt with attachment with surrogate mothers because of bodily contact and not cause of nourishment

Question 25

Mary ainsworth

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Studied attachment differences by observing mom-baby pairs at home during the first 6 months

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Secure attachment

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Children play and explore comfortably in mothers presence, distressed when she leaves, and seeks contact when she returns

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Insecure attachment

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Children explore less in moms presence and ,at cling to her, cry when she leaves and remain upset or act indifferent when she returns

Question 28

Jean Piaget

Answer 28

Famous developmental psychologist. Studied cognitive development in children
4 Developmental Stages