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Physical & Cognitive Development Flashcards

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What is maturation?

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Biologically based changes that follow an orderly sequence, each step setting the stage for the next step according to an age related timetable.

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What is a critical period?

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Periods of special sensitivity to specific types of learning and sensory stimulation that shape the capacity for future development.

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What is a sensitive period?

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Times that are more important to subsequent development than others.

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What is the ongoing debate regarding development?

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Whether or not it occurs in critical periods or sensitive periods and whether or not it occurs in stages.

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What is a stage?

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Relatively discrete steps through which everyone progresses in the same sequence as opposed ti a steady and gradual change.

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What occurs in brain development withing the first two years?

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The formation of major synapses in auditory, visual and language areas.

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What needs to occur for neural connections to survive?

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They require stimulation: Those that are not stimulated are pruned.

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What is Myleanation?

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The coating of neural fibers with insulating fatty sheath that improves efficiency of message transfer.

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What can change refer to?

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The acquisition or the loss of a behavior or function.

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What are the ways change can occur?

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  1. Continuous: The gradual alteration of behavior
  2. Discontinuous: Refers to stages of growth that are qualitatively different and that are usually ordered in a fixed sequence.
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What are the three types of design used in research of development?

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  1. Cross-sectional: Compares groups of different ages at a time.
  2. Longitudinal: compares same group at multiple time points.
  3. Sequential: Combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal.
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What are the three periods of prenatal development?

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  1. Germinal period: The fertilized egg (zygote) enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division
  2. Embryonic period: The developing human organism (embryo) from 2 weeks through 2nd month.
  3. Foetal period: The developing human organism (foetus) from 9 weeks after conception to birth.
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What is a teratogen?

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An environmental agent that harm the embryo.

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What are four types of teratogen?

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  1. AOD
  2. Chemicals
  3. Radiation
  4. Virus
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In development, what is a reflex?

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Innate motor responses elicited by critical stimuli and are adaptive.

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Name two reflexes,

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  1. Rooting reflex: a touch on the cheek induces the infant to move its mouth toward the source of the touch.
  2. Sucking reflex: Tactile stimulation of the mouth produces rhythmic sucking.
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what is puberty?

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The stage when individuals become physically capable of reproduction.

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What is associated with early maturing males?

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  1. Positive body image

2. Satisfaction with physical self.

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What is associated with early maturing females?

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  1. Negative body image

2. more dissatisfied than on time or late maturers with physical self.

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Whats is menopause?.

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Cessation of the menstrual cycle.

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What is ageism?

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Predjudice against old people: Can lead to employment discrimination.

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What two methods do researchers use to study infant perception and cognition?

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  1. Orienting reflex: The tendency to pay greater attention to novel stimuli than familiar.
  2. Sucking reflex: Sucking rate increases with novel stimuli and decreases with familiar stimuli.
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Describe the visual and auditory capabilities of infants.

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  1. Auditory capabilities are well developed even from birth.

2. Visual perception is poor at birth though improves to 20/100 by 6 months.

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What is intermodal processing?

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The ability to associate sensations of an object from different senses or to match their own actions to behaviors they observed visually.

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What is infantile amnesia?

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Lack of explicit memory for events before the age of three or four years.

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According to Piaget, what does cognition refer to?

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Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating.

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What did Piaget argue children posses?

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Schema’s

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What is a schema?

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An organized pattern of thought or behavior: They are the basis of knowledge.

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What are the two ways Schema;s operate in children?

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  1. Assimilation: Taking in new information and incorporating it into existing schemas
  2. Accommodation: Adjusting current schema to meet new information.
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What are Piaget’s stages of development?

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  1. Sensorimotor: 0-2 thought and action is identical. Infant explores through senses.
  2. Preoperational: 2-7 Symbolic thought develops. Object permanence.
  3. Concrete operational: 7-12 The child is able to perform reversible mental operations on representations of objects.
  4. Formal operational: 12+ Logic can be applied abstractly. Hypothetical thinking.
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What is object permanence?

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The realization that an object continues to exist even if it cannot be seen.

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What is egocentrism?

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A cognitive view in which the child understands the world to have only their view. (difficulty in understanding the views of others).

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What is conservation?

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Understanding that the basic properties of an object are constant even if the object changes shape.

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What are the main criticism’s of Piaget’s theory?

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  1. Focus on rational thinking
  2. Strict stage approach
  3. Underestimated the capabilities of infants and preschool children.
  4. Rarely considered the roles of culture in cognitive development.
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Describe Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of cognitive development.

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Emphasized the role of social interaction as a motivation for cognitive gains and learning.

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What is the zone of proximal development?

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Stretches from sole performance to collaborative cooperation.

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What does the information processing approach to cognitive development focus on?

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  1. Processing speed: Mental quickness increases as children age.
  2. Automatisation: The ability to perform some tasks automatically.
  3. Knowledge base: Children gain knowledge with experience
  4. Cognitive strategies: More sophisticated ones are developed.
  5. Metacognition: Thinking about thinking.
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What do Neo-Piagetian Theories aim to achieve?

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They combine Piagetian and information-processing theories.

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What is psychomotor slowing?

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Older people require more time to process information.

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How does memory change in the elderly?

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  1. Short term memory: relatively unchanged.
  2. Working memory: difficulties in complex tasks
  3. Long term memory: Storage unchanged but retrieval becomes more difficult.
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In what ways do fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence change with age?

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  1. Crystallized intelligence increases

2. Fluid intelligence decreases

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