Infancy

Question 1

Sum total of all the genes a person inherits

Answer 1

Genotype

Question 2

The features that are actually expressed in a person

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Phenotype

Question 3

Child’s phenotype influences their

Answer 3

Environment

Question 4

Child’s environment influences their

Answer 4

Genotypes

Question 5

How environmental influences actually affect the expression of their genes

Answer 5

Epigenetics

Question 6

Maternal effects on prenatal environment

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Mothers genes, mothers age, disease, nutrition, mothers emotional state, stress, depression

Question 7

Which period is most critically affected by teratogens

Answer 7

Embryonic

Question 8

form of non-associative learning in which an innate response to a stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus

Answer 8

Habituation

Question 9

the fast recovery of a response that has undergone habituation, typically as a result of the presentation of a novel, strong or sometimes noxious stimulus.

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Dishabituation

Question 10

How our brains make use of information that has already been brought into the brain by one or more of the sensory systems

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Top-down processing

Question 11

When the environment (stimuli) influence our thinking

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Bottom-up processing

Question 12

When our thinking influences how we see, understand, or perceive the environment

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Top-down processing

Question 13

Piaget’s object permanence starts to develop around what age and what stage

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8 months, sensorimotor stage

Question 14

Infant habituation patterns are predictive of

Answer 14

Cognitive skills

Question 15

Types of learning: picking up information from the environment and detecting statistically predictable patterns

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Statistical learning

Question 16

Types of learning: if I smile, you smile

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Statistical learning

Question 17

Types of learning: ability to use prior experiences to predict what will occur in the future

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Rational learning

Question 18

Types of learning: learning by acting on the world rather than passively observing it

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Active learning

Question 19

Involves forming an association between two stimuli, resulting in a learned response

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Classical conditioning

Question 20

Unconditioned stimulus (food), unconditioned response
Neutral stimulus (bell), no response
During conditioning: associating the neutral stimulus(bell) with the unconditioned stimulus(food), the unconditioned response is salivating. After conditioning, the bell alone will produce salivating.

Answer 20

Classical conditioning

Question 21

This type of conditioning involves reinforcement and punishment

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Operant conditioning

Question 22

In operant conditioning, this increases the behavior

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Reinforcement

Question 23

In operant conditioning, this decreases the behavior

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Punishment

Question 24

When something pleasant or rewarding is given after a specific behavior

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Positive reinforcement

Question 25

An attempt to increase a specific behavior by subtracting something

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Negative reinforcement

Question 26

Adding something to decrease behavior

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Positive punishment

Question 27

Subtracting something to decrease behavior

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Negative punishment

Question 28

During piaget’s premoral period (<5), children have ____ or ____ of rules

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Little concern, awareness

Question 29

Obedience and punishment orientation towards morality

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Kohlberg’s pre-conventional morality level 1

Question 30

Foundations of morality are shaped by _____ ______ and learned within ____ ______

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Cultural norms, interpersonal relationships

Question 31

_____ is biologically based

Answer 31

Temperament

Question 32

Determinants of temperament

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Teratogens
Parenting
Heritability
Gene v. Environment

Question 33

Infants aren’t able to regulate emotions so we have to _____

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Coregulate

Question 34

Coordinated, rapid exchange of responses between caregiver and infant, helps to teach infants how to read and express a variety of emotions

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Synchrony

Question 35

Sensorimotor stage is characterized by

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Observing and engaging with environment through the senses and through motor skills

Question 36

simple but highly adaptable form of learning where there is a Decrease in response to repeated or
continued stimulation

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habituation

Question 37

type of learning where one individual comes to
behave similarly to another

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social learning

Question 38

type of learning that occurs by watching others

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observational learning

Question 39

this is a form of observational learning

Answer 39

imitation