Chapter 4 - Part 1 Flashcards

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Zygote

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The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

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Developmental Psychology

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

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Embryo

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The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

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Fetus

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The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

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Teratogens

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Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused. G a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions

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Rooting Reflex

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A baby’s tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple

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Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner

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Maturation

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Biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relative,you influenced by experience

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Jean Piaget

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Developmental psychologist, best known for studying the cognitive development in children, using careful observation

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Schemes

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A concept for framework that organizes and interprets information

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Assimilation

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Interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas

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Accommodation

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Adopting one’s current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

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Cognition

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Sensorimotor Stage

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In Piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

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Object Permanence

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The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

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Preoperational Stage

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In Piaget’s theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

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Conservation

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The principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

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Egocentrism

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In Piaget’s theory, the pre-operational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Theory of Mind

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People’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict

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Autism

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A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other’s states of mind

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Concrete Operational Stage

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In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

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Formal Operational Stage

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In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

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Harry Harlow

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Attachment; bred monkeys for experiments

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Stranger Anxiety
The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
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Mary Ainsworth
Studied attachment differences by observing mother-infant pairs at home during their first 6 months. Later, she observed the 1-year-old in a strange situation without their mothers
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Attachment
An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
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Secure Attachment
Children play and explore comfortably in their mother's presence, are distresses when she leaves, and seek contact when she returns
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Insecure Attachment
Children explore less in their mother's presence and may cling to her, cry loudly when she leaves, and remain upset or act different when she returns