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What period does lifespan development occur?

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Through out the person entire life

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What is the upper boundary in years for humans?

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122 years

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What is the life expectancy in the 20th century?

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79 years old

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What is the biological process?

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Process that produce changes in individuals physical nature…..your genes…exercising…horomonal changes

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What is cognitive process?

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Proves that produces changes in thoughts, intelligence and experience

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What is socioemotional process

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Involves changes in individual relationship with other people, emotions, personality

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What is the prenatal period?

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Conception to birth….baby is growing

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What is infancy?

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18-24 months…..language, motor skills, cordonation and socialization are just beginning

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What is early childhood?

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3-5 years…. becoming more independent and and develop skills for school

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What is middle childhood?

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6-10 years….mastering fundamental skills like reading, writing and math

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What is adolescence?

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12 to 21…. transitioning from child to adult….puberty

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What is early adulthood?

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20s-30s…establishing personal and economic independence

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What is middle adulthood?

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40s to 60s expanding personal and social involvement and helping the next generation

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What is nature vs nurture?

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The debate that tries to determine what is most important for developing into a successful adult

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What is a psychoanalytic theory?

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Says that we develop unconsciously

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What is freuds theory?

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Says that problems in life are from experience in early development

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What did Erickson theory say?

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Says that each stage has problem we must face and that issues in adulthood are because we did not face these issues head on

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What are chromosomal abnormalities and examples?

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Chromosomal abnormalities is having not enough or too many chromosomes ….. Down syndrome can occur when you have too may chromosomes….less likely if baby is had between 16 and 34

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What is a gene linked disorder?

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A disorder that can be passed from parent to offspring …sickle cell anemi

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What is the germinal period?

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First two weeks after contraception..creation of zygote and cell division..

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What is the embryonic period?

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Two to eight weeks after contraception…cell division and organs are made

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What is the fetal period?

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Begins two months after contraception and will last for the next 7 months…

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What is late adulthood

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60s to death…life review and retirement

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What is chorionic sampling?

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Tiny tissue is romoved from from the placenta

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What is amniocentesis?
When a needle is stuck in a woman stomach to suck in the amniotic fluid
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What is maternal blood screening?
Blood is drawn to be tested for any possibilities of birth defects
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What are teratogens and when do they have the most effect in child?
They are anything that can cause birth defects in a child...the embryonic period is the most fragile
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What are the stages of birth?
First contractions occur...second...head pops out...third...placenta is cut
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What is the apgar scale?
Tests done in a child to determine if it is healthy...higher score the better
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How much weight does a newborn loose after it’s first day of life?
7 to 10 percent
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When is birth weight doubled in a newborn?
5 months
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When is birth weight tripled in a newborn?
1 year of age
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What does the frontal lobe do?
Controls voluntary movements, thinking, personality, emotions, memory, attention, purpose
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What is the occupational lobe?
Function is vision
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What is the temporal lobe?
Hearing, language, processing and memory
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What are the parietal lobe?
Spacial location, focusing, attention, and motivation control
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What percentage of the brain does a 2 year old have compared to a adult?
75 percent
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What is the life expectancy for men?
76 years
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What is the life expectancy for women?
81
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What is the leading cause of death in children?
Motor vehicle crashes
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What is dementia?
Loss of memory and judgment
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What is Alzheimer’s?
Gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and eventually physical function
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How long should you exclusively breast feed?
6 moths
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how much doe infants grow from birth to one year?
Tripled weight and doubles length
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What is rooting reflex ?
When rubbed trying to find something to suck
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What is the sucking reflex?
When something is placed in mouth it sucks
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What is Moro reflex?
Being startled
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What is gasping reflex?
When touching hand it grabs
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What is habituation?
Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus and being presented multiple times
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What is dishabituation?
The recovery of a habituated response
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What is the infants vision on the snell chart?
Pupil test
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What is assimilation?
Children use existing schemes to incorporate new info
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What is accommodation?
Adjusting schemes to fit new information
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What is piagets sensorimotor stage?
Birth to 2 The child begins to understand world
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What is piagets preoperational stage?
2 to 7 The child begin to represent the world
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What is piagets concrete operational stage?
7 to 14The child can now use reason and logic to
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What is piagets formal operational stage
11 to death... reasoning in abstract ways
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What is animism?
Belief that inanimate objects can do things that people can do...tree pushed the leaf away
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What is conservation?
Altering the way an object looks doesn’t change its properties
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What is centration?
Focusing on only one characteristic...glass trick one glass is taller than the other
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What is the zone of proximal development?
Needing assistance or having someone present
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What is encoding?
Putting emotion into words
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What are schemas?
Things that hold memeory
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What is intelligence?
The ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences
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What is sternberrgs triarchic theory?
Says there is three kinds of intelligence analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence e
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What is a phoneme?
Distinct sounds that make language
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What is telegraphic speech?
When you ....
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What is telegraphic speech?
Short sentences....this shoe wet.....Andrew want balll
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What are primary emotions?
Emotions that are present in other animals like joy, anger, sadness, fear and disgust
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What is self conscious emotions?
Emotions that require a sense of me....empathy, jealousy, embarrassment, pride, shame guilt
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What is socioemotional selective theory?
Adults become more selective of who they associate with for their own well being
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What is an easy child temperament?
Child is generally in a positive mood and adapts easily to new experiences
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What is a difficult child?
Child tends to be negative, cries frequently, slow to accept change
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What is a slow to warm up child?
Low activity, somewhat negative, low intensity of mood
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What is social referencing?
Looking at how others are reacting to determine how you should feel
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What is self esteem?
Self worth or image
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What is self concept?
Analyzing specific attributes of self...I am tall....I am a good friend...feeling important
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What are the big 5 factors of personality?
Neuroticisms, openess, consciousness, agreeableness, extraversion
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What is the last stage of Erickson lifespan theory?
Ego integrity vs despair
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What is moral development?
Changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding right and wrong things
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What is heteronomous morality?
Justice and rules are conceived as unchangeable properties of the world
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What is autonomous morality?
Children learn rules and laws are created by people....observe persons intention
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What are the two components of the super ego?
The ego ideal...part of the child that wants to please parents rules The ego conscience
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What is authoritarian parenting?
Restrictive and demands respect and to follow all rules no exceptions
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What is authoritative parenting style?
Encourages child to be independent...still places control in child...
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What is the neglectful parenting style?
Parent is uninvolved in child life
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What is indulgent parenting style?
Very involved with child but puts no control on child
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What are the types of child maltreatment?
Physical abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse
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What is ageism?
Prejudice based on a person age
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What is socioeconomic status?
Where they are based on money and place
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What is culture?
Customs, art, achievements of a group of people
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What is brain death?
Neurologically defined as death...no electricity in the Brian
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What part of the brain dies first?
Top goes first
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What is hospice care?
Program that helps the end of life be as smooth as possible
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What is palliative care?
In hospice care and is supposed to reduce pain and suffering
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What is the leading cause of infant death?
Sudden infant death syndrome
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What age de children understand the finality of death?
4
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What are the stages of death?
Denial...anger...bargaining...depression and acceptance

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