Chapter 4 Development Through the Life Span

Question 1

nature/nurture

Answer 1

how do genetic inheritance and experience influence our behavior?

Question 2

continuity/stages

Answer 2

is developmental a gradual process or a sequence of separate stages?

Question 3

stability/change

Answer 3

do our early personality traits persist through life or do we change while we age

Question 4

conception

Answer 4

sperm penetrates egg

Question 5

zygote

Answer 5

fertilized egg

Question 6

fetus

Answer 6

week 9

Question 7

tevatogens

Answer 7

drugs, viruses that can harm the developing fetus

Question 8

if mother smokes

Answer 8

body experience reduced blood oxygen, nicotine, and fewer nutrients

Question 9

alcohol usage while pregnant

Answer 9

fetal alcohol syndrome: physical and cognitive abnormalities in the developing child

Question 10

rooting reflex

Answer 10

when newborn’s cheek is stroked, they open their mouth and search for the nipple

Question 11

infants have habituation

Answer 11

decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus that is repeatedly present

Question 12

maturation

Answer 12

sets the basic course of development, while experience adjusts it

Question 13

order of maturation is

Answer 13

the same in all infants (unaffected by experience)

Question 14

5 year old

Answer 14

sense of self and increased long term memory

Question 15

Jean Piaget

Answer 15

cognitive development

Question 16

schemas

Answer 16

mental concepts or frameworks

Question 17

assimilation

Answer 17

interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema

Question 18

accommodation

Answer 18

changing a schema to incorporate new information

Question 19

sensorimotor

Answer 19

infants gain knowledge of the world through senses and motor activities

Question 20

development psychology

Answer 20

physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

Question 21

Jean Piaget

Answer 21

cognitive development and stages (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational)

Question 22

cognition

Answer 22

mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering

Question 23

schemas

Answer 23

mental concepts

Question 24

assimilation

Answer 24

interpreting a new experience

Question 25

accommodation

Answer 25

changing a schema to incorporate new information

Question 26

sensorimotor stage

Answer 26

(birth - 2 years) infants gain knowledge through senses and motor activities, do not grasp object permanence

Question 27

in the sensorimotor stage

Answer 27

infants can understand basic laws of physics and can count