developmental psychology Flashcards
zygote
fertilized egg, 2-weeks
embryo
after 10 days, there is placenta now
fetus
after 9 weeks, begins to look human
cross-sequential research design
multiple pople from different age groups are observered over time
Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS)
when the mother consumes alcoho lduring pregnancy, intellectual disabilities, brain and skull abnormalities
Turner’s Syndrome
When a person is born with just the x chormosome, can result in abnormal sexual development and shortened and webbed neck
Klinelter’s syndrome
when people are born with an extra X chromosome, minimal sexaul development, extreme introversion
Dwon syndrome
an extra chromosome on the 21st pair
schema
Conceptual framework that helps us make judgment about the world around us and solve problems
assimilation
we add and comapre new experiences to alsready existing schemas
accommodation
adaopt our cheams to new experiences
sensorimotor stage
babies expereince the wokrld through their actions and senses
preoperational stage
(2-7), unable to do mental operations and don’t have logical reasoning, can use words tov describe things, egocentric
Concrete operational
(7-11) analogies, logical thinking, mathematical operations, conservation and mathematical transformations,
Formal operational
(12-adulthood) anstract reasoning, mature reasoning