Midterm Flashcards
What are the three stages of pregnancy
- Period of the Zygote
- Period of the Embryo
- Period of the Fetus
Period of the Zygote
- Zygote travels down fallopian tube and is implanted in the uterine wall
- Implantation triggers hormonal changes to prevent menstruation
- Center of zygote contains germ disc
- Cells that develop into a baby
- Other cells form placenta, which supports baby’s development
Period of the Embryo
- Body structures, internal organs, and three layers of embryo (ecto-, meso- and endoderm) develop
- Amniotic sac fills w/ fluid and UC connects the embryo to placenta
- UC blood vessels join placenta to embryo
Period of Fetus Week 4
- Neural tube forms
- Spinal cord grows
- Brain grows
- Cerebral cortex
Period of the Fetus Week 9
-Differentiation of the ovaries and testes
Period of the Fetus Week 12
-Circulatory system begins to function
Period of the Fetus Week 16
-Movements felt by mother
Period of the Fetus Week 20
- Eyebrow, eyelashes and scalp hair grow
- Skin thickens and covered by protective greasy substance (Vernix)
Period of the Fetus Weeks 22-28
-Age of viability
Period of the Fetus Weeks 22 and beyond
- Senses active
- Baby can remember voices, music and tastes
Genotype
-The actual combination of genes that a person has
Phenotype
-What is physically displayed
How many chromosomes are in a gamete?
46
Monozygotic Twin
-A single fertilized egg splitting to form two new individuals
Dizygotic Twin
-Two separate eggs fertilized by two sperms
5 parts of the APGAR test
- Heart Rate
- Respiration
- Muscle tone
- Reflexes
- Skin tone
Co-sleeping
-The practice of sleep in the same room or bed with a child
Tempermant
-Consistent styles or patterns of infant behavior
Perception
-Brain processes receiving, selecting, modifying and organizing sensory inputs
When do children start to recognize their own name?
By 4 months old
Theory of Mind
- Naive understanding of the relationship between mind and behavior
- 3 phases
TOM phase 1
-By two years, aware of desires; speak of wants and likes
TOM phase 2
-By 3 years, distinguish the mental from physical world
TOM phase 3
-By 4 years, know that behavior can be based on beliefs about events, even if belief is false
Assimilation
- Fitting new experiences into existing schemes
- Required to benefit from experience
Accommodation
- Modifying schemes as a result of new experiences
- Allows for dealing with completely new data or experiences
Egocentrism
-Difficulty seeing the world from others’ perspectives
Animism
-Crediting inanimate objects with life and lifelike properties
Centration
-Concentrating on only one facet of a problem to the neglect of other facets
Conservation
- Knowing that volume, mass, number, length, area or liquid quantity are the same despite superficial appearance changes
- Centration interferes with conservation
Naive Physics
- Infants rapidly create a reasonably accurate theory of objects basic properties
- 4.5 months: Understand object permanence
- 5 months: understand that liquids, but not solids, change shape when moved
- 6 months: understand gravity and objects’ movements
Naive Biology
- Infants: use motion to discriminate animate from inanimate objects
- 12-15 months: know that animate objects are self-propelled, move in irregular paths; act to achieve goals
Phonemes
-Small, unique sounds
Scheme
-A mental structure that organizes info and regulates behavior
Internal Working Model
-Infants understanding of how responsive and dependable the mother is; thought to influence close relationships throughout the child’s life
Social Referencing
- 12 month old-Infants use adults facial and vocal emotion displays to direct their own behavior
- 14 month olds remember earlier observed emotional reactions of parents to particular objects
- 18 month olds use the reactions of one adult to another adults behavior to guide their own behavior
Working Memory
- The temporary storage and use of information that one needs to perform a task
- Limited in capacity and how long it lasts
- Most thought takes place in WM
Long Term Memory
- The storehouse for memory that is permanent and of unlimited capacity
- Info is transferred into LT, stored in it, and retrieved from it
Stereotype threat
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Anxiety and reduced test performance may result from knowledge about stereotypes concerning one’s ability
Negative Reinforcement
Any consequence that ends up both
- Being “subtracted from” the environment (the negative part) as a result of another behavior
- Making that other behavior likely to occur again in the future (the reinforcement part)