Developmental Psychology

Question 1

fetus

Answer 1

delelovping human organism

Question 2

cognition

Answer 2

all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering & communicating

Question 3

embryo

Answer 3

developing human organism

Question 4

intimacy

Answer 4

ability to form close, loving relationships

Question 5

menopause

Answer 5

natural cessation of menstruation

Question 6

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Answer 6

physical & cognitive abnormalities in children caused by mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy

Question 7

stranger anxiety

Answer 7

a fear of strangers infants have at 8 months of age

Question 8

identity

Answer 8

one’s sense of self

Question 9

longitudinal study

Answer 9

people are restudied & retested over a long period of time

Question 10

egocentrism

Answer 10

cannot see through another’s point of view

Question 11

self concept

Answer 11

a sense of one’s identity & personal growth

Question 12

puberty

Answer 12

period of sexual maturation

Question 13

imprinting

Answer 13

certain animals form attachments during critical period

Question 14

habituation

Answer 14

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Question 15

preoperational stage

Answer 15

uses language but does not comprehend logic

Question 16

autism

Answer 16

disorder marked by deficient communication, social interaction & others’ state of mind

Question 17

adolescence

Answer 17

transition period from childhood to adulthood

Question 18

maturation

Answer 18

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior relatively uninfluenced by experiences

Question 19

developmental psychology

Answer 19

studies physical, cognitive & social change throughout the life span

Question 20

formal operational stage

Answer 20

can think logically about abstract concepts

Question 21

critical period

Answer 21

period shortly after birth when exposure produces proper development

Question 22

secondary sex characteristics

Answer 22

non-reproductive characteristics (breasts)

Question 23

assimilation

Answer 23

interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas

Question 24

accommodation

Answer 24

adapting one’s current schemas to incorporate new information

Question 25

schema

Answer 25

a concept or frame work that organizes & interprets information

Question 26

teratogens

Answer 26

agents that can reach the embryo of fetus and cause harm

Question 27

concrete operational

Answer 27

gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Question 28

object permanence

Answer 28

the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

Question 29

Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer 29

progressive & irreversable brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memroy, reasonly, language & physical functioning

Question 30

attachment

Answer 30

emotional tie with another person

Question 31

crystallized intelligance

Answer 31

accumulated knowledge & verbal skilles (increases with age)

Question 32

cross-sectional study

Answer 32

people of different ages are compared with one another

Question 33

theory of mind

Answer 33

ideas about your own and others’ mental states

Question 34

rooting reflex

Answer 34

a baby’s tendency to turn towards & search for a nipple when touched on the cheek

Question 35

sensorimotor stage

Answer 35

knwoing the world in forms of sensory impressiongs & motor activities

Question 36

basic trust

Answer 36

a sense that the world is trustworthy and predictalbe

Question 37

primary sex characteristics

Answer 37

body structures that make reproduction possible (ovaries, testes)

Question 38

zygote

Answer 38

the fertilized egg

Question 39

fluid intelligance

Answer 39

one’s ability to reason speedily & abstractily (tends to decrease with age)

Question 40

menarche

Answer 40

first menstrual period

Question 41

social clock

Answer 41

culturally preferred timing of social events such a marriage, parenthood & retirement