Chapter 4 - 2nd Half

Question 0

Imprinting

Answer 0

Certain animals form attachments during a critical period early in life

Question 1

Critical period

Answer 1

Period shortly after birth when an organisms exposure to certain stimuli/experiences produce proper development

Question 2

Basic trust

Answer 2

Sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy

Question 3

Self-concept

Answer 3

Sense of ones identity and personal worth

Question 4

Authoritarian parents

Answer 4

Impose rules and expect obedience

Super strict

Question 5

Permissive parents

Answer 5

Submit to their children’s desires, make few demands and use little punishment
Not strict at all

Question 6

Authoritative parents

Answer 6

Demanding and responsive. They exert control by setting rules and enforcing them but explain reasonings
Middle

Question 7

Adolescence

Answer 7

Transition period from childhood to adulthood

Question 8

Puberty

Answer 8

Period of sexual maturation; now capable of reproducing

Question 9

Primary sex traits

Answer 9

Body structures (testies, ovaries, external genitalia) that makes sexual reproduction possible

Question 10

Secondary sex traits

Answer 10

Nonreproductive sexual characteristics (breast, hips)

Question 11

Lawrence kohlberg

Answer 11

Developed moral reasoning, the thinking that occurs as we consider right and wrong

Question 12

Preconventional morality

Answer 12

When children follow rules for the approval of others and not for themselves

Question 13

Conventional morality

Answer 13

Care for others and upholds laws and social rules simply because they are rules and laws

Question 14

Post conventional morality

Answer 14

During adolescence, people can find a happy medium between following rules and making exceptions based in their opinions and emotions about a certain topic

Question 15

Menarche

Answer 15

First menstrual period

Question 16

Erik erikson

Answer 16

Developmental psychologist who developed the 8 stage theory

Question 17

Identity

Answer 17

Ones sense of self

Question 18

Intimacy

Answer 18

Ability to form close, loving relationships

Question 19

Menopause

Answer 19

Time of natural ending of menstruation; reproduction declines

Question 20

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 20

Progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, language and physical function

Question 21

Cross-sectional study

Answer 21

Study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

Question 22

Longitudinal study

Answer 22

Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

Question 23

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 23

Ones accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, tends to increase with age

Question 24

Fluid intelligence

Answer 24

Ones ability to reason speedily and abstractly; decreases during late adulthood

Question 25

Social clock

Answer 25

Culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement