Life Span Quiz Qs Flashcards
Landau et al 2007 found that sexually active adults..
Age 57 to 85 years of age reported a frequency of sexual activity similar to the frequency reported in an earlier study of adults ages 18 to 59. However, their survey results also indicated that the number of older adults identify themselves as “sexually active” decreased with increasing age.
The visual cues and infant uses to perceive depth arise in a predictable sequence. Which cue is the last develop?
Binocular
Social
Kinetic
Pictorial
Pictorial
The sequence of sensitivity to depth cues is: kinetic, binocular, and pictoral
The best conclusion that can be drawn from research on neurogenesis in the human brain is that?
It continues in a limited form throughout life
It primarily occurs in the last weeks of gestation
It is limited to infancy
It is the basis for intelligence
It continues in a limited form throughout life
Neurogenesis is the process by which nervous system cells, neurons, are produced by neural stem cells. This is a critical process and early brain development and appears to continue in some regions throughout life.
Results of a national survey on drug use and health food the adolescence are most likely to have used which of the following the past month?
Meth
Heroin
Alcohol
Marijuana
Alcohol
Research consistently shows that alcohol is the most commonly used substance among adolescence United States
Piagets four stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor (birth-2 years)
Preoperational stage (2-7 years)
Concrete operational stage (7-11 or 12 years)
Formal operational stage (11/12+ years)
Piagets sensorimotor stage
Birth to 2 years old
A child learns about objects and other people through the sensory information they provide such as how they look, feel, and taste and actions that can be performed on them, such as sucking, grasping, hitting.
Learning during this phase is the result of circular reactions, which are the actions that are performed in order to reproduce events that initially occurred by chance
Piagets circular reactions six sub stages
Substage one – reflexive schemes – birth to one month – the infant exercises their reflexes
Substage two – primary circular reactions – one to four months – thumb sucking
Sub stage three – secondary circular reactions – 4 to 8 months – shakes a rattle
Sub stage four – coordinated secondary circular reactions – 8 to 12 months – uncovered an object and then grasps it
Substage five – tertiary circular reactions – 12 to 8 months – drops a toy from different Heights
Sub stage six – mental representation – 18 to 24 months – symbolic thought, involves forming internal representations that allow the child to think about absent objects and past events, and to anticipate the consequences of an action
Object permanence
Sensorimotor stage
Begins and sub stage four and allows the child to recognize the objects and people continue to exist when they’re out of sight
Pre-operational stage
2 to 7 years old
Symbolic function, representational thought and permits the child to learn through the use of language, mental images, and other symbols. Children engage in more sophisticated, symbolic, play such as adopting the roles of other people and using object symbolically and can solve problems mentally.
Precausal transductive reasoning: childrens incomplete understanding of cause and affect due to magical thinking
Animism: attribute human characteristics to inanimate objects.
Egocentrism- child’s inability to separate their perspective from others, unable to imagine another persons point of views.
Not able to conserve: not understanding that changing one dimension of an object does not change its other dimensions. (Cutting up a piece of food does not make more food)
Concrete operational stage
7 to 11 or 12 years old
Capable of mental operations, which are logical rules for transforming and manipulating information
Able to classify and more sophisticated ways, such as solve class, inclusion problems, order items in terms of length or other dimensions, understand part – whole relationships, and relational terms, such as bigger or lighter and conservation .
Conservation: depends on the operations of reversibility and decentration and develops gradually, with conservation of number occurring first, followed by conservation of liquid, length, weight, and then displacement volume.
Horizontal decalage: describes the gradual acquisition of conservation abilities and other abilities within a specific stage of development
Formal operational stage
11 or 12+ years
Able to think abstractly and is capable of hypothetical – deductive reasoning, which means that they can identify competing hypotheses about a problem and strategies for systematically testing those hypotheses. And adolescence, there is a renewed egocentrism, which involves an inability to separate one’s own abstract thoughts from thoughts of others
Elkind 1981 adolescent egocentrism
Specific characteristics include the personal fable, which is the belief that one is unique, and not subject to the natural laws that govern others and the imaginary audience, which is the belief that one is always the center of attention.
