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Chapter Nine: Lifespan Development Flashcards

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What are growth or changes to the body and the brain?

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Physical Development

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What type of development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity?

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Cognitive Development

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What type of development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships?

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Psychosocial Development

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What is the approach of comparing ages in which developmental milestones including writing, crawling, or saying sentences occur?

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Normative Approach

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What is the belief that changes occur gradually over time?

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Continuous Development

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What is the belief that the stages of life cause more sudden changes?

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Discontinuous Development

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What is Freud’s type of development that is separated by the urges for erogenous zones including oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital called?

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Psychosexual Development

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What is Erikson’s type of development that emphasizes the social nature of development rather than the sexual nature called?

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Psychosocial Development

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What is it called when children take in information that is comparable to what they already know?

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Assimilation

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What is it called when children change their schemata based on new information?

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Accommodation

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What are the mental structures that a child uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes/behavior?

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Schemata

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What is the understanding that even if something is out of sight, it still exists?

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Object Permanence

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When the child is unable to take in the perspective of others?

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Egocentrism

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What is the idea that even a change in appearance does not change the size of something as long as nothing was removed or added?

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Conservation

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What is the principle that though objects can be changed, they can be returned to their original form?

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Reversibility

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What type of morality involves obedience, punishment, and self-interest?

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Preconventional Morality

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What type of morality involves interpersonal and authority?

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Conventional Morality

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What type of morality involves social contracts and universal ethics?

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Post-Conventional Morality

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The stage of prenatal development where conception between sperm and egg creates a zygote that divides in a process called Mitosis:

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Germinal Stage

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The stage of prenatal development where the divided zygote attaches to the uterus lining, creating an embryo, and the placenta and basic instructions begin forming:

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Embryonic Stage

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The stage of prenatal development where the embryo is called a fetus, and the brain and organs begin to form until the fetus can survive outside the womb:

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Fetal Stage

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What is the medical care that monitors the health of the fetus and mother that reduces the risk of complications?

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Prenatal Care

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What are any biological, chemical, or physical environmental agents that damage the developing fetus?

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Teratogen

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What is the period where exposure to a teratogen can cause significant abnormalities?

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Critical Period

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What are the inborn automatic responses to particular forms of stimulation in order to survive?

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Newborn Reflexes

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What is the coordination of large actions including the movement of arms and legs?

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Gross Motor Skills

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What is the coordination of large actions including the movement of arms and legs?

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Gross Motor Skills

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What is the coordination of small actions including the movement of eyes, fingers, and toes?

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Fine Motor Skills

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What is a long-standing connection or bond with others called?

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Attatchement

29
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What is a parental presence that gives the child a sense of safety as he explores his surroundings

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Secure Base

30
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When a toddler prefers a parent over a stranger, it is called:

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Secure Attatchment

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When a toddler is unresponsive to the parent, it is called:

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Avoidant Attatchment

32
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When a toddler shows clingy behavior but rejects parental attempts of interaction, it is called:

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Resistant Attatchment

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When a toddler avoids a parental figure, it is called:

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Disorganized Attatchment

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In this parenting style, parents set rules and explain the reasons behind them. It is called:

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Authoritative Style

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In this parenting style, parents place value on obedience and conformity. It is called:

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Authoritarian Style

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In this parenting style, the children run the show. It is called:

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Permissive Style

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In this parenting style, the parents are neglectful. It is called:

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Uninvolved Style

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What are the innate traits that influence how one thinks, behaves, and reacts with the environment called?

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Temperament

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What is the period of development that begins a puberty and ends at emerging adulthood?

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Adolescence

40
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What is the awakening of adrenal glands called?

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Adrenarche

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What is the awakening of sex glands called?

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Gonadarche

42
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What type of sexual characteristics includes sex organs like the uterus and testicles?

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Primary Sexual Characteristics

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What type of sexual characteristics includes physical signs of sexual development like deepened voice and breast development?

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Secondary Sexual Characteristics

44
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What is the beginning of the menstrual period called?

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Menarche

45
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What is the first ejaculation called?

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Spermarche

46
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What is the ability to take the perspective of others and feel concerned for others?

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Cognitive Empathy

47
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What is the period of life that includes the ages of 18 to the mid-20s?

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Emerging Adulthood

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What is the period of life that includes the ages of late 20s to early 40s?

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Adulthood

49
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When our social support and friendships dwindle in number but remain as close or more than in our earlier years, it is called:

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Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

50
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Who helps provide the death with dignity and pain management in a comfortable environment?

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Hospice

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