Exam 3 Flashcards
What is Developmental Psychology?
The study of how the metal processes and behavior change as an individual grows
What are the main domains of development
Cognition (sensation, perception, memory, and mental processes), social dynamics/relationships, and personality
TWhat are some main reflexes that we develop as an infant?
Grasping (touch of palm to light grasp), rooting (touch of cheek for breastfeeding), sucking (touch on pallet), moro (sudden shift in position results in clutching)
What is motor development?
The development of the usage of muscles
When do infants start to roll over?
3-5 months
When do infants start to sit?
6 months
When do infants start standing alone?
11-12 months?
When do infants start walking?
12-14 months
When do infants start babbling?
6 months
When do infants start their first words?
12 months
When do infants start speaking simple sentences?
18-19 months
How is newborn vision? And why?
Newborns have very poor visual processing due to lack of stimulation in utero
How is newborn audition?
In comparison to vision, pretty well developed, because exposed to stimulation in utero (also able to recognize)
How long does it take for infants to perceive depth?
~8 months
What is a common example used to study a child’s ability to perceive danger?
“Visual Cliff”
Do infants show preference to complex or simple patterns?
More complex
What sort of techniques can spot out what stimuli is interesting to infants?
Eye gaze tracking
Why are faces so important for infants?
Facilities recognition, critical for social development/interaction
Who is Jean Piaget and what did he do?
He discussed the series of qualitative changes to how children think about the world (cognitive development)
What are schemas?
Concepts and operations (concepts about how the world works)
What is assimilation?
Fitting new experiences into existing schemas (concepts/operations)
What are accomodations?
Changing schemas to account for new information
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The first two years of life, where we learn how to use the sensory system/control the body, and distinguish ourselves from other things/people and object permenance
What is the preoperational stage?
When we start to learn language, exhibit egocentrism (everything revolves around me and everyone knows what I know), and no theory of mind, more intuition rather than logic
What is theory of mind?
The understanding that other people’s minds are different from their own and may have different information?
What is conservation?
The volume and mass of an object remain the same no matter how its arranged