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Developmental Psych and Language Flashcards

Module 3? - 3.6

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What is Developmental Psychology?

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study of physical, cognitive, and social emotional change

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Nature Vs Nurture

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interaction of genetic inheritance and environment

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Continuity Vs Stages

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what develops gradually and what doesn’t

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Stability Vs Change

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how traits persist and change during life

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5
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Longitudinal Studies

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same people over different times

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Cross-Sectional Studies

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different ages at the same time

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Teratogens

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agents that can reach the embryo during development and cause potential harm

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Stress Prenatal Effects

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early delivery, risk of hypertension, heart disease, obesity

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Diet Prenatal Effects

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risk of illness from certain foods

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Medicine Prenatal Effects

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Birth defects, low birth weight, premature birth, learning disabilities, withdrawal

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Illness Prenatal Effects

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certain illnesses can affect prenatal development

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Drugs Prenatal Effects

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withdrawal and serious health complications

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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physical and cognitive deficits, small out of proportion head and distinct facial features

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Habituation

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decreased responsiveness to repeated stimulation

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Maturation

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orderly changes in behavior not influenced by environment (growing older)

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Critical Periods

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the prime time to gain a skill during development, and sometimes impossible to gain after

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Brain Development

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although born with all of your neurons, neural connections are only made rapidly after birth

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Motor Development

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babies most commonly roll, sit, crawl, then walk

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Experience and Brain Development

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new neural pathways prepare us for thought, language, and experience

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Memory Development

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Adolescence

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Puberty

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Development of Teens

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Early Maturation in Boys

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Early Maturation in Girls

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Selective Pruning

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Development in Adolescence

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Physical Changes in Middle Adulthood

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Menopause

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30
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Changes in Late Adulthood

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31
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Other Elements of Aging

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32
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Piaget’s core idea

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children develop in stages

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33
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Schema

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current understanding of the world (mental categories)

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Assimilation

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interprete the world according to current schemas

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Accomodation

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adjusting schemas to incorporate new information

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36
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Sensorimotor

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take in the world through senses and movement

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37
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Preoperational

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ability to represent things with words and images

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Concrete Operational

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beginning to grasp operations

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Formal Operational

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reasoning expands to encompass abstract thinking

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Object Permanence

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awareness that things still exist when not perceived

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Stranger Anxiety

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apprehension of infants to people unknown of them

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Egocentrism

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difficulty seeing another’s point of view

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Lack of Conservation

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inability to comprehend consistency across changes in form

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Vygotsky core idea

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Scaffold

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46
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Theory of Mind

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Imaginary Audience

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Personal Fable

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Moral Intuitions

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50
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Alzheimer’s

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51
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Language

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set of spoken, written, or signed words that convey meaning

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Chomsky Language Theory

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Skinner Language Theory

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we learn language with immigration and reinforcement

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Vygotsky Language Theory

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we learn language through social interaction

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Phoneme

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Morpheme

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Grammar

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Receptive Language

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Babbling

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Telegraphic Speech

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Aphasia

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Broca’s Area

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Wernicke’s Area

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Linguistic Determinism

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Ecological Systems Theory

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Microsystem

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Mesosystem

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Exosystem

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Macrosystem

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Chronosystem

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Attachment

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Secure Attachment

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Insecure Attachment

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Temperament

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Self Concept

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Self Esteem

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Authoritarian Parenting

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Permissive Parenting

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Authoritative Parenting

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Neglectful Parenting

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Identity

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Social Identity

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Erikson Concept

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Erikson Stage One

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Erikson Stage Two

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Erikson Stage Three

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Erikson Stage Four

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Erikson Stage Five

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Erikson Stage Six

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Erikson Stage Seven

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Erikson Stage Eight

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Emerging Adulthood

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Social Clock

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AP Psychology (18 decks)

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