dvp1 Flashcards

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

– is the time from conception to birth. It involves tremendous growth from a single cell to an organism complete with brain and behavioural capabilities and takes an approximately a 9 month period.

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Prenatal period

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

– from 18 to 24 months.

is a time of extreme dependence upon adults. Toddler , is often used to describe a child from about 1 1/2 to 3 years of age.

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Infancy

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

from 3-5 years of age. This period is sometimes called the “preschool years”, young children learn to become more self-sufficient and to take care of themselves, develop school readiness skills (following instructions, identifying letters)

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Early childhood,

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

6-10 or 11 years of age, corresponding to the elementary school years.Children master the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic and they are formally exposed to the larger world and its culture.

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Middle and Late Childhood

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

transition from childhood to early adulthood (10-12 years old) and ending at 18-21 years old.

begins with rapid physical changes-dramatic gains in height and weight, changes in body and contour, and the development of sexual characteristics such as enlargements of the breast, growth of pubic and facial hair, and deepening of the voice.

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Adolescence

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

begins in early twenties and lasts through the thirties. It is a time of establishing personal and economic independence, advancing in a career, selecting a mate, learning to live with that person in an intimate way, starting a family, and rearing children.

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Early Adulthood

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

40-60 years old. It is a time of expanding personal and social involvement and responsibility, of assisting next generation in becoming competent, mature individuals and of reaching and maintaining satisfaction in a career.

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Middle Adulthood

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PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

60s and 70s to death. It is a time of life review, retirement, and adjustment to new social roles and diminishing strength and health. It has the longest span of any period of development, the number of people in this age group has been increasing dramatically.

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Late Adulthood

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PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Infant’s pleasure centers on the mouth.

From birth -1/2 years old

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Oral Stage

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PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Child’s please focuses on the anus

From 1 1/2-3 years old

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Anal Stge

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PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Child’s pleasure focuses on the genitals

From 3-6 years old

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Phallic Stage

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PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Child represses sexual interest and develops social and intellectual skills

From 6 years-puberty

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Latency Stage

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PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

A time of sexual reawakening; source of sexual pleasure becomes someone outside the family.

Puberty onward

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Genital Stage

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Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

If needs are dependably met, infants develop a sense of basic trust.

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Trust vs Mistrust

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toddles learn to exercise will and do things for themselves, or they doubt their abilities.

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Autonomy vs Shame/doubt

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Preschoolers learn to initiate tasks and carry out plans or they feel guilty about efforts to be independent.

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Initiative vs Guilt

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Children learn the pleasure of applying themselves to tasks, or they feel inferior

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Industry vs inferiority

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Teenagers work at refining a sense of self by testing roles and then integrating them to form a single identity or they become confused about whoe they are.

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Identity vs confusion

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Young adults struggle to form close relationships and to gain the capacity for intimate love, or they feel socially isolated.

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Intimacy vs isolation

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The middle-aged discover a sense of contributing to the world, usually throught family and workd, or they may feel a lack of purpose.

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Generativity vs Stagnaton

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When reflecting on his or her life, the oldder adult may feel a sense of satisfaction or failure.

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Integrity vs Despair

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When reflecting on his or her life, the older adult may feel a sense of satisfaction or failure.

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Integrity vs Despair

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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

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Schemes -

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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

using existing schemes to deal with new information or experiences

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Assimilation -

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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences.

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Accomodation -

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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

grouping isolated behaviors and thoughts into a higher order, more smoothly funationing cognitive system.

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Organization

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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

explain how childern shft from one stage of thought to the next.

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Equilibration -

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Threadlike structures that come in 23 pairs, with one member of each pair coming from each parent.

contain the genetic substance DNA.

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Chromosomes-

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A complex molecule that contains genetic information.

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DNA-

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Units of hereditary information composed of DNA.

help cells to reproduce themselves and help manufacture the proteins that maintain life.

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Genes-

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Cellular reproduction in which the cell’s nucleus duplicates itself with two new cells being formed, each containing the same DNA as the parent cell, arranged in the same 23 pairs of chromosomes.

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Mitosis-

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A specialized form of cell division that occurs to form eggs and sperm (also known as gametes).

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Meiosis -

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  • one of two or more alternative/variant forms of a gene
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Alele

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the consequences of a behavior produce changes in the probability of the behavior’s occurrence. A behavior followed by a rewarding stimulus is more likely to recur, whereas a behavior followed by a punishing stimulus is less likely to recur.

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B.F. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning

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the average number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live.

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Life Expectancy

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views development as lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss

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The life-span perspective

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produce changes in an individual’s physical nature. Genes inherited from parents, brain development, height and weights gains, changes in motor skills, nutrition, exercise, the hormonal changes of puberty and etc.

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Biological Process -

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refers to changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence and language.

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Cognitive process

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involve changes in the individual’s relationship with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality.

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Socioemotional Process

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describe development as primarily unconscious (beyond awareness) and heavily colored by emotion.

emphasize that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that a true understanding of development requires analyzing the symbolic meanings of behavior and the deep inner workings of the mind.

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Psychoanalytic theories

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is a form of intellectual disability caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21

An individual with_______ has a round face, a flattened skull, an extra fold of skin over the eyelids, a protruding tongue, short limbs, and impaired motor and mental abilities.

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Down syndrome

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is a chromosomal disorder in which males have an extra X chromosome, making them XXY instead of XY

Males with this disorder have undeveloped testes, and they usually have enlarged breasts and become tall

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Klinefelter syndrome

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is a genetic disorder that results from an abnormality in the X chromosome, which becomes constricted and often breaks

An intellectual difficulty frequently is an outcome, which may take the form of an intellectual disability, autism, a learning disability, or a short attention span

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Fragile X syndrome (FXS)

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is a chromosomal disorder in females in which either an X chromosome is missing, making the person XO instead of XX, or part of one X chromosome is deleted. Females with _____ are short in stature and have a webbed neck

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Turner syndrome

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is the sequence in which growth proceeds from top to bottom.

is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-to the head- with physical growth differentiation of features gradually working their way down top to bottom

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cephalocaudal pattern

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. the sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities. Example infants control the muscles of their trunk and arms before they control their hands and fingers, and they use their whole hands before they can control several fingers

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proximodistal pattern,

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is the most important mechanism newborns have for communicating with their world.

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Crying

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A rhythmic pattern usually consisting of a cry, a briefer silence, a shorter inspiratory whistle that is higher pitched than the main cry, and then a brief rest before the next cry.

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Basic cry

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A variation of the basic cry, with more excess air forced through the vocal cords.

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Anger cry

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A sudden appearance of a long, initial loud cry without preliminary moaning, followed by breath holding.

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Pain cry

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is the inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective.

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Egocentrism-

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another limitation of preoperational thought, is the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action.

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Animism

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-The preschool child no longer has to make an effort simply to stay upright and to move around. As children move their legs with more confidence and carry themselves more purposefully, moving around in the environment becomes more automatic

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Gross Motor Skills

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At 3 years of age, although children have had the ability to pick up the tiniest objects between their thumb and forefinger for some time, they are still somewhat clumsy at it.

can build surprisingly high block towers, placing each block with intense concentration but often not in a completely straight line.

By 4 years of age, children’s_______ coordination has improved substantially and become much more precise.

By age 5, children’s_______ motor coordination has improved further. Hand, arm, and body all move together under better command of the eye.

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Fine Motor Skills-

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Changes in children’s perceptual development continue in childhood

When children are about 4 or 5 years old, their eye muscles usually are developed enough that they can move their eyes efficiently across a series of letters.

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Perceptual Development-