Lifespan Flashcards
Age of Viability
22-26 Weeks after conception
PMTO (Parent Management Training-Oregon Model)
Designed to stop coercive parenting style by providing parents with therapy to help them deal better with stress and teaching them effective parenting skills.
Difference between Assimilation and Accommodation
Assimilation: Fitting into established knowledge.
Accommodation: Making room for new information.
Developmental ages when self-conscious emotions emerge and what emotions appear in each stage?
18-24 Months: Embarrassment, envy and empathy
30-36 Months: Pride, shame and guilt
Name Erikson’s stages of development and the character traits developed within each stage.
0/1- Trust vs. mistrust (hope)
1/3- Autonomy vs. shame/doubt (Will)
3/6- Initiative vs. guilt (Purpose)
7/11- Industry vs. inferiority
(Competence)
12/18- Identities vs. confusion
(Fidelity)
19/29- Intimacy vs. isolation (Love)
30/64- Generativity vs. stagnation
(Care)
65+- Integrity vs. despair (Wisdom)
List the levels and stages of Kohlberg’s‘s moral development
Preconventional (3-7 age)- moral reasoning, based on reward and punishment
Stage 1 Avoiding punishment
Stage 2 Self-interest
Conventional (8 to 13 age) – moral reasoning, based on external ethics
Stage 3 Good boy/girl attitude
Stage 4 Law and order
Post conventional, (adulthood) – moral reasoning, based on personal ethics
Stage 5 Social contract
Stage 6 Principle
In regard to language, the Smallest unit of meaning is referred to as a what?
Morpheme
Such as “inter,” “er,” “ism”, “ed” and “pre”.
Full siblings, fraternal, twins, and other first degree relatives share how much of their genetic material?
50%
What’s the difference between Kleinfelter,Turner and Rett’s?
– all three disorders are due to sex chromosome abnormalities
-Kleinfelters - Affects males, Extra X Chromosome, develops feminine features
- Turner - Affects females, only 1 X chromosome, do not develop sex characteristics and are infertile, short stature, stepping fingers, dripping eyelids, receding, or small, lower jaw, and I have like vision problems, skeletal abnormalities.
Rett’s- (AKA “RTY”) Caused by mutation from the MECP2 gene. Affects females. Infants with a disorder develop normally during the first 6 to 18 months then develop characteristic symptoms slow head and brain, loss of speech, motor skills, abnormal hand, movements, sleep, disturbances, breathing abnormalities, and seizures. Children also have autistic symptoms during the early stages of the disorder.
Piaget’s explanation for how conservation is developed.
Developed during concrete operational stage as a result of the emergence of
reversibility of thought
decentration
transformational thinking.
When does sound (auditory) localization emerge for infants?
Soon after birth and then disappears 2-4 months of age and then reappears and improves to nearly adult levels by 12 months of age.
In language development, what does the term overextension mean?
When children use a word too broadly, for instance when they apply the same word to people, objects, or events that it does not apply to.
In language learning, what does the term underextension mean?
When children apply a word only to a specific person, object or event rather than to all the people, objects, or events it applies to.
What are the three stages of Piaget’s moral development model?
Pre-moral, heteronomous, and autonomous.
Heteronomous has to With basing judgments of a person’s behavior on its consequences. While, the autonomous stage bases moral judgments on the person’s intentions.
Which type of memory is most negatively affected by increasing age?
Secondary memory, AKA “recent long-term memory”.
What is nitch picking?
The tenancy of children and adolescence to seek experiences that reinforce their genetic predispositions.
Phenotype
A characteristic that’s directly observable, and is the result of the combination of genetic and environmental factors.
When does separation anxiety begin in most infants?
Between 6-8 months and peaks in intensity between 14 and 18 months and gradually decreases.
Infantile Amnesia
AKA “childhood amnesia” which the inability of older children to, adolescents, and adults to recall events they experienced prior to 3-4 years of age.
What are the four attachment experiences classified on the AAI and describe each category
Autonomous- supportive parents (secure attachment)
Dismissing- provide positive feedback about childhood, but descriptions do not support or are contradicted by actual memories.(anxious-avoidant infant attachment)
Preoccupied-reversal of caregiving roles during childhood (anxious-resistant attachment)
Unresolved- feel responsible for some loss or trauma suffered during childhood and still grieving.
Horizontal decalage
Piaget’s description of the gradual acquisition of abilities within a cognitive developmental stage.
Transitivity
Being able to understand how objects are related to one another
Irreversibility
Refers to the young child’s difficulty with mentally reversing a sequence of events
Centration
The tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation and neglect other possible relevant aspects.