Chp11-P358-P379 Flashcards
Developmental psychology?
concerned with interaction between physical and psychological processes and with stages of growth from conception throughout the entire life span.
Normative investigation?
A research effort designed to describe what is characteristic of a specific age or developmental stage.
Developmental Age?
Chronological age at which most children show a particular level of physical or mental development.
Longitudinal Design?
A research design in which the same participants are observed repeatedly, sometimes over many years.
Cross sectional design?
Research method in which groups of participants of different chronological ages are observed and compared at a given time.
Physical development?
the bodily changes, maturation and growth that occur in an organism, starting with conception and continuing across the life span.
Zygote?
The single cell that results when a sperm fertilises an egg.
Germinal stage?
The first two weeks of prenatal development following conception.
Embryonic stage?
The second stage of prenatal development, lasting from the third week through to 8 weeks after conception.
Foetal stage?
the third stage of prenatal development, lasting from the ninth week through to the birth of the child.
Teratogan
Environmental factors such as diseases and drugs that cause structural abnormalities in a developing foetus.
maturation?
The continuing influence of heredity throughout development; the age related physical and behavioural changes characteristic of a species.
Puberty?
The proces through which sexual maturity is attained.
Menarche?
The onset of menstruation
Cognitive development?
the development of processes of knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning and problem solving.