Chp11-1stHalfReverse Flashcards
concerned with interaction between physical and psychological processes and with stages of growth from conception throughout the entire life span.
Developmental psychology?
A research effort designed to describe what is characteristic of a specific age or developmental stage.
Normative investigation?
Chronological age at which most children show a particular level of physical or mental development.
Developmental Age?
A research design in which the same participants are observed repeatedly, sometimes over many years.
Longitudinal Design?
Research method in which groups of participants of different chronological ages are observed and compared at a given time.
Cross sectional design?
the bodily changes, maturation and growth that occur in an organism, starting with conception and continuing across the life span.
Physical development?
The single cell that results when a sperm fertilises an egg.
Zygote?
The first two weeks of prenatal development following conception.
Germinal stage?
The second stage of prenatal development, lasting from the third week through to 8 weeks after conception.
Embryonic stage?
the third stage of prenatal development, lasting from the ninth week through to the birth of the child.
Foetal stage?
Environmental factors such as diseases and drugs that cause structural abnormalities in a developing foetus.
Teratogan
The continuing influence of heredity throughout development; the age related physical and behavioural changes characteristic of a species.
maturation?
The proces through which sexual maturity is attained.
Puberty?
The onset of menstruation
Menarche?
the development of processes of knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning and problem solving.
Cognitive development?
Piaget’s term for a cognitive structure that develops as infants and young children learn to interpret the world and adapt to their environment.
Scheme?
According to Piaget, the process whereby new cognitive elements are fitted in with old elements or modified to fit more easily.
Assimilation?
Where existing schemes change to accommodate new information learnt by a child.
Accommodation
The period between birth and age 2 during which an infant’s knowledge of the world is limited to their sensory perceptions and motor activities.
sensorimotor stage?
The recognition that objects exist independently of an individual’s action or awareness; an important cognitive acquisition of infancy
Object permanence?
The period between ages 2 and 7 during which a child learns to use language. During this stage, children do not yet understand concrete logic.
Preoperational stage?
IN cognitive development, the inability of a young child at the preoperational stage to take the perspective of another person.
Egocentrism?
A thought pattern common dujring the beginning of the preoperational stage of cognitive development in a child.
The tendency to have their attention captured by the more perceptually striking features of objects.
Centration?
According to Piaget, the understanding that physical properties do not change when nothing is added or taken away, even though appearances may change.
Conservation?
A framework for initial understanding formulated by children to explain their experiences of the world.
Foundational theory?
