Development

Question 1

major parts of developmental psychology

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Nature v nuture, Continuity and stages, and Stability and change

Question 2

Continuity and stages

Answer 2

Seeing life as a continuous flow or in select stages

Question 3

Type of people who see life as stages

Answer 3

Biological researchers

Question 4

Type of people who see life as continous

Answer 4

Learning theorists

Question 5

Stability

Answer 5

Life becomes much more stable around the middle of life

Question 6

Change

Answer 6

There is a lot of quick changes in childhood and adolescense

Question 7

what are some famous development researchers and their model

Answer 7

Piaget’s 4 cognitive development stages, Erik Erikson’s social development, and Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral development

Question 8

Piaget’s 4 cognitive development stages

Answer 8

sensorimotor, preoperational thinking, concrete stage, formal operation

Question 9

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 9

birth-2yrs, lack object permanence, and see the world through senses

Question 10

Preoperational stage

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2-7 yrs, egocentrism, water in a glass experiment

Question 11

Concrete operational stage

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7-12yrs, start ot understand logical problems, understand conservation

Question 12

Formal operation

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adulthood, understnad if/then statements, logic and reasoning continue to grow

Question 13

When does a fertalized egg start to look human like

Answer 13

9 weeks

Question 14

When can a fertalized egg first survive on its own

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6 months

Question 15

When does differentiation start to occour

Answer 15

Once cell division reaches 100 cells

Question 16

What causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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teratogens slow the activity in the central nervous system

Question 17

When does language start

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In the womb, fertalized eggs start to pick up on mothers voice

Question 18

Physical characteristics of FAS

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Thin upper lip, low nasal bridge, flat midface and short nose

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Behavioral effects o FAS

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Hyperactive, risk for downs syndrome, lack of impulse control, lack of declarative memory

Question 20

What are some reflexes that newborns have

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sucking, grasping, rooting, tonic neck, babinski, startle

Question 21

What is visual habituation

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Basic form of learning, a child can recognize a toy they have already been shown

Question 22

What is maturation

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Biological process that underlies development and cognitive changes

Question 23

What is infantile amnesia

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cannot recall events before the age of 3 years

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Why does infantile amnesia happen

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the hippocampus matures and we cannot remember anything from before the maturation

Question 25

When does stranger anxiety happen

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9-12 months

Question 26

What happens if a child is deprived of attachment

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decrease in IQ, increase in anxiety, and more aggression with a lack of social skills

Question 27

When does the prefrontal cortex fully develop

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Age 25

Question 28

What happens during adolescence

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Puberty, sexual characteristics, desicions based more in impulse

Question 29

Physical changes of adulthood

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metabolism slows, digestion changes, sexual aspects decrease

Question 30

What causes dementia and alzheimers

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the destruction of the hippocampus. Can have neurofibulary tangles and beta amyloid plaques

Question 31

neurofibulary tangles

Answer 31

organization of projections in hippocampus are gone

Question 32

beta amyloid plaques

Answer 32

neurons that are dead are not cleared out