Development Flashcards

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1
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Biologically primed form of attachment?

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Imprinting

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2
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What did Harlow study

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Attachment

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3
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Indiscriminate attachment behaviour

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Newborns

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4
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Discriminate attachment behaviour

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3 months

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5
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Specific attachment behaviour

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7-8 months

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6
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Separation anxiety

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Getting anxious when the mother leaves

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7
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12-16 months to 2-3 years?

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Separation anxiety

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8
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Goal corrected partnership?

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Ages 3-4

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9
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Strange situation test?

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Type of attachment the baby has that involves playing with a stranger

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10
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Reacting positively during the test and distressed with mother’s leave

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Secure attachment

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11
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Insecure attachment consists of?

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Anxious resistant

Anxious avoidant

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12
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Anxious resistant?

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Fearful all the time

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13
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Anxious avoidant

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Show little to no signs of attachment

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14
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Secure infants are?

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better socially adjusted

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15
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Nonsecure infants more?

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Behavioural issues

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16
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Prolonged attachment deprivation can lead to

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Long term risks

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17
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In cognitive performance (daycare controversy)

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No differences except in high quality daycare

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18
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4 styles of parenting

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Authoritative
Authoritarian
Indulgent
Neglectful

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19
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Demanding but caring

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Authoritative

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20
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Warm but careless

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Indulgent

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21
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Assertion of parental power without warmth

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Authoritarian

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22
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Indifferent and uninvolved

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Neglectful

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23
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Which parenting style is most ideal?

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]Authoritative

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24
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Children of indulgent parend?

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Are immature and self centred

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25
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Children of neglectful parents?

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Negative developmental outcomes

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26
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Gender identity

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(2-3 years), sense of femaleness or maleness

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27
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Gender constancy

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(6-7 years) understanding one’s sex is permanent

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28
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People being treated differently based on sex

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Sex typing

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29
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Kohlberg’s stage theory

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Moral development

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30
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Preconventional reasoning is?

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Level 1, judge what is right and wrong based on reward and punishment

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31
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Conventional reasoning is?

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Level 2, Moral judgment based on conformity to expectations of society

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32
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Post conventional reasoning?

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Based on conscience as well as general principles that are a part of a person’s values

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33
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How was Kohlberg’s theory criticized?

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Western cultural bias
Gender bias
Thinking is prioritized over behaviour

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34
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Carol Gilligan’s criticism?

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Differences between men and women in terms of values

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35
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Hauser proposed?

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Innate intuitive neural mechanism

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36
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Which brain part is involved in some aspects of moral decisions

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Prefrontal cortex

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37
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Early maturation generally more positive for ___?

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Boys

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38
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Corpus callosum?

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increases 10% during adolescence

39
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Basal metabolic rate?

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Slows after 40

40
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Adult brain?

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Brain tissue DOES get lost as we age

41
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Which brain parts show the greatest loss?

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Frontal and parietal lobes

42
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Two parts of adolescent egocentrism?

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Overestimation

Oversensitivity

43
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Overestimation?

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Over exaggeration of life situations

44
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Over sensitivity?

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Believing that everyone is watching

45
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Post-formal operational thinking?

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Final stage of development that allows an individual to combine parallel points and reason them into one

46
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Decrease in Perceptual speed
Memory for new information
Spatial memory
Recall
Changes to prospective memory – less clear
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Information processing

47
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Peak in middle adulthood then a decline

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Crystallized intelligence

48
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Which type of intelligence is more stable?

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Crystallized intel

49
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Fluid intelligence?

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Declines in early adulthood

50
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Identity diffusion?

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No crisis yet: no role

51
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Foreclosure?

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Adopting a role sans identity crisis

52
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Moratorium?

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Current unresolved identity crisis

53
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Identity Achievement?

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Solving an identity crisis and knowing who you are

54
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Parental relationships?

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Conflict is generally low

55
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Conflict examples?

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Misconduct
Anti-social behaviour
Hopelessness
Low self esteem

56
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Marital satisfaction?

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Declines over first few years

57
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Elisabeth Kubler Ross?

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5 stages of grief

58
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Environmental Influence as well as Sex determination and genes

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Prenatal Development

59
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Changes in biological, physical, psychological, and behavioral processes

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Developmental psychology

60
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Age where experiences must occur

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Critical period

61
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Sensitive period?

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Optimal age range, can still learn but not as optimal

62
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Gradual changes?

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Continuous

63
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Something before. but something else appears later?

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Discontinuous

64
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Inverted U shape

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Emerges early, peaks then diminishes with age

65
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U shape

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Early emergence, disappears then re-emerges

66
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Cohort?

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(group born at same time) studying one group at a time

67
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Cross-sectional?

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(Comparing different ages at same time) Studying different groups at same time

68
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Longitudinal?

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(Test same cohort at different times) Taking one single group and testing over time

69
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Sequential?

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Test several cohorts as they age (combo of longitudinal and cross sectional)

70
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Different cohorts grew up in different time periods

Different experiences, cultural changes, environmental changes

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Design issues for cross sectional design

71
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Time-consuming

People drop out

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Design issues for longitudinal design

72
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3 stages of prenatal dev

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Germinal
Embryonic
Fetal

73
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First two weeks where zygote attaches to uterine wall

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Germinal

74
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Embryonic

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2nd-8th week where placenta & umbilical cord develop

75
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Fetal

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Begins on week 9 and after 28 weeks the age of viability is reached

76
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TDF?

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Found in y chromosome and determine if testes are to develop

77
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Testes secrete?

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Androgens

78
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The critical period in prenatal development is?

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6-8weeks

79
Q

Insufficient androgen activity usually means?

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Female

80
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Environmental agents that may cause abnormal fetal development?

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Terotogens

81
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Maternal malnutrition causes?

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Miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, impaired brain development

82
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Maternal stress causes?

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Premature birth, attentional deficits and irritability

83
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AN example of a stress hormone?

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Cortisol

84
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STD’s

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Brain damage, blindness and deafness

85
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder?

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Ranges from mild to severe cognitive, behavioural and physical deficits

86
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Newborns look longer at stimuli that?

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They find interesting

87
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Cephalocaudal principle

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Development is from head to foot

88
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Proximodistal principle

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Innermost to outer most development

89
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First areas to develop for brain

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Brainstem

90
Q

Last areas to develop

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Associative areas of cortex

91
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Growth rate of brain

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At 5 years, 90% of adult size

92
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Brain builds schemas to achieve understandings?

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Piaget stage model

93
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Assimilation

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New experiences incorporated into exisiting schemas

94
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Accommodation

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New experiences cause exisiting schemas to change