Chp11-P358-P379 Flashcards

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Developmental psychology?

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concerned with interaction between physical and psychological processes and with stages of growth from conception throughout the entire life span.

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Normative investigation?

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A research effort designed to describe what is characteristic of a specific age or developmental stage.

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Developmental Age?

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Chronological age at which most children show a particular level of physical or mental development.

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Longitudinal Design?

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A research design in which the same participants are observed repeatedly, sometimes over many years.

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Cross sectional design?

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Research method in which groups of participants of different chronological ages are observed and compared at a given time.

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Physical development?

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the bodily changes, maturation and growth that occur in an organism, starting with conception and continuing across the life span.

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Zygote?

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The single cell that results when a sperm fertilises an egg.

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Germinal stage?

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The first two weeks of prenatal development following conception.

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Embryonic stage?

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The second stage of prenatal development, lasting from the third week through to 8 weeks after conception.

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Foetal stage?

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the third stage of prenatal development, lasting from the ninth week through to the birth of the child.

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Teratogan

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Environmental factors such as diseases and drugs that cause structural abnormalities in a developing foetus.

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maturation?

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The continuing influence of heredity throughout development; the age related physical and behavioural changes characteristic of a species.

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Puberty?

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The proces through which sexual maturity is attained.

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Menarche?

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The onset of menstruation

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Cognitive development?

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the development of processes of knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning and problem solving.

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Scheme?

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Piaget’s term for a cognitive structure that develops as infants and young children learn to interpret the world and adapt to their environment.

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Assimilation?

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According to Piaget, the process whereby new cognitive elements are fitted in with old elements or modified to fit more easily.

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Accommodation

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Where existing schemes change to accommodate new information learnt by a child.

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sensorimotor stage?

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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.

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Object permanence?

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The recognition that objects exist independently of an individual’s action or awareness; an important cognitive acquisition of infancy

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Preoperational stage?

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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.

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Egocentrism?

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IN cognitive development, the inability of a young child at the preoperational stage to take the perspective of another person.

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Centration?

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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.

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Conservation?

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According to Piaget, the understanding that physical properties do not change when nothing is added or taken away, even though appearances may change.

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Foundational theory?

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A framework for initial understanding formulated by children to explain their experiences of the world.