Chapter 5 Dev Psych

Question 1

Zygote

Answer 1

The fertilized egg

Question 2

Embryo

Answer 2

When the inner part of the zygote becomes a developing organism

Question 3

Fetus

Answer 3

Stage from 2 months after conception to birth

Question 4

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

Answer 4

• When the mom consumes a lot of alcohol during pregnancy

- can cause mental and facial deformities

Question 5

Scheme

Answer 5

Way of organizing and interpreting world

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

Reinterpreting info so it fits existing schemas

Question 7

Accommodation

Answer 7

Adjust schema to accommodate new info

Question 8

Sensorimotor

Answer 8

• (0-2)

- uses movement and senses to understand the world

Question 9

Preoperational

Answer 9

• (2-6)

- uses symbolic thinking, language, to understand the world

Question 10

Concrete operaton

Answer 10

• (7-11)

- logical operations of principals

Question 11

Formal operational

Answer 11

• (12-adult)

- can think about abstract hypothetical concepts

Question 12

Piaget’s Stages

Answer 12

Cognitive Development

Question 13

Kohlberg’s Theory

Answer 13

Moral Development

Question 14

Preconventional

Answer 14

Morality: self interest

• punishment orientation
• reward orientation

Question 15

Conventional

Answer 15

Morality: follows rules

• good-child orientation
• law and order orientation

Question 16

Postconventional

Answer 16

Morality: follows higher principals

• social contract orientation
• universal ethical principals orientation

Question 17

Erikson’s stages

Answer 17

Psychosocial stages

Question 18

Trust vs mistrust

Answer 18

Birth - one year

- infants learn they can/can’t trust others to take care of their basic needs

Question 19

Autonomy vs shame and doubt

Answer 19

1 - 2 years

• children learn to do things on their own
• if held back, they learn to doubt their abilities and feel shame

Question 20

Initiative by guilt

Answer 20

3 - 5 years

• children learn to assume more responsibility by taking initiative
• if not, feel guilty by overstepping limits set by parents/caregivers

Question 21

Industry vs inferiority

Answer 21

5 yrs - puberty

• children learn to be competent by mastering new intellectual, social, and physical skills
• or feel inferior if they fail to develop these skills
• need to feel like they’re good at something (art, math, etc)

Question 22

Identity vs inferiority

Answer 22

Adolescence

• develop a sense of identity by experimenting
• if no role experimentation, may lead to role confusion (not having an identity)
• as old as college*

Question 23

Intimacy vs isolation

Answer 23

Young adulthood

• form intimate relationships with others
• if not, become isolated of fail three to do so

Question 24

Generality vs stagnation

Answer 24

Middle adulthood

• feel they are giving back to next generation
• if not, feel stagnant from not helping
• stagnant often referred to as the “midlife crisis”

Question 25

Integrity vs despair

Answer 25

Late adulthood

• older adults assess their lives and develop a sense of integrity if they find their lives have been meaningful
• if not, they have a sense of desperate if their lives don’t seem meaningful