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Chapter 4 Quiz Flashcards

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Physical

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Nature vs. Nurture

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Cognitive

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continuity vs stages

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Social

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stability vs change

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4 stages

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  • prenatal development and newborn
  • infancy and childhood
  • adolescence
  • adulthood
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Conception

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a single sperm cell penetrates the outer coating of the egg and fuses to form one fertilized cell.

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Zygote

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fertilized egg (100 cells that become more diverse)
- 2 week period of rapid cell division
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Embryo

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developing human organism (2 weeks to 2 months)

- at nine weeks the embryo turns into a fetus

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Embryo (end of 2nd month)

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develops facial features, hands, and feets

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Embryo (entering 4th month)

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3 ounces; can fit in palm of hand

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Teratogens

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chemicals or viruses that can enter the placenta and harm the fetus
ex. aid viruses, nicotine, and alcohol

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

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physical and cognitve abnormalities in children caused by a woman’s heavy drinking

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Rooting reflex

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babies born with survival reflexes: this is an example of the baby opening its mouth and looking for or “root” for the nipple when you touch their cheek.

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Habituation

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form of learning showing a decreased responsiveness to stimuli

  • response weakens the longer the baby is exposed to it
  • suggest memory recognition
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Baby Prefrences

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  • human voices and faces
  • face-like images
  • smell and sound of mother
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motorskills and memory depend on ___

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brain development

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Maturation

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brain development in based on genetic instructions, causing bodily and mental functions to occur in sequence.
ex. crawling- standing- walking

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17
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conscious memory doesn’t take shape until….

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age 3-4

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cognition

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all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Jean Piaget

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developmental psychologist

  • believe children develop in stages
    ex. two year old doesn’t know that a mini slide is too small to function.
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schemas

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frame work for information. in order to adjust our schemas we assimilate and accomodate.

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assimilate

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interpret a new experience in terms of current knowledge

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accomodate

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adapt our current understandings to incorporate new info.

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Piagetion Stages

  1. sensorimotor
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age: birth-2

- babies take in the world by looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping

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Piagetion stages

  1. Pre operational
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age: 2- 6/7
- children represent the world through words, images, symbols, and gestures
- use intuition rather than logic

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Piagetion stages

3. concrete operational

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ages: 7-11
- use logical reasoning to think about concrete events and analogies, but too young to attempt complex mental operations.

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Piagetion Stages

4. formal operational

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ages: 12 and up

- develop ability to reason abstractly and hypothetically

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researcher change Piaget theory by saying…..

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  • development is a continuous process
  • children express their mental abilities at an early age
  • formal logic is a smaller part of cognition
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Attachment: Harry Harlow

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  • conducted an experiment showing monkeys preferring contact with comfortable cloth mother even while feeding from the nourishing wire mother.
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Developmental psychology

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branch of psychology concerned with physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.

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Fetus

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developing prenatal human from 9 weeks after conception to birth.

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Object Permanence

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which develops during the sensorimotor stage, is the awareness that things do not cease to exist when not perceived.

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conservation

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the principle that properties such as number, volume, and mass remain constant despite changes in the forms of objects; it is acquired during the concrete operational stage.

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egocentrism

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  • Piagets theory
  • refers to the difficulty that pre-operational children have in considering another’s viewpoint. “Ego” means “self,” and “centrism” indicates “in the center”; the pre-operational child is “self-centered”/
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Theory of Mind

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our ideas about our own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and perceptions and the behaviors these might predict constitute our theory of mind

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Autism

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a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficiencies in communication, social interaction, and theory of mind.

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Stranger anxiety

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the fear of strangers that infants begin to display at about 8 months of age.

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critical period

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a limited time shortly after birth during which an organism must be exposed to certain experiences or influences if it is to develop properly.

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Imprinting

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the process by which certain animals form attachments during a limited critical period early in life.

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basic trust

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a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy— a concept that infants form if their needs are met by responsive caregiving.

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self-concept

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a person’s sense of identity and personal worth.

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adolescence

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life stage from puberty to independent adulthood, denoted physically by a growth spurt and maturation of primary and secondary sex characteristics, cognitively by the onset of formal operational thought, and socially by the formation of identity.

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puberty

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the early adolescent period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproduction.

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primary sex characteristics

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the body structures. (ovaries, testes, external genitalia) that enable reproduction.

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secondary sex characteristics

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the non reproductive sexual characteristics, for example, female breasts, male voice quality, and body hair.

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menarche

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first menstrual cycle

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Spermarche

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boys first ejaculation

47
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Intimacy

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  • Eriksons theory

- the ability to establish close, loving relationships, is the primary task of late adolescence and early adulthood.

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identity

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  • Eriksons theory

- one’s sense of self, is the primary task of adolescence.

49
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Menopause

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  • cessation of menstruation
  • occurs in the early 50s
  • declining ability to reproduce
50
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Alzheimers disease

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progressive and irreversible brain disorder. gradual loss of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning.
-deterioration of neurons (Acetylcholine)

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cross-sectional study

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people of different ages are compared with one another

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longitudinal study

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the same people are tested and retested over a period of years.

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crystallized intelligence

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  • increases with age

- intellectual ability (vocab and general knowledge)

54
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fluid intelligence

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refers to a persons ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
-decline with age

55
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social clock

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culturally preferred timing of social events, such as leaving home, marrying, having children, and retiring.

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