Unit. 4: Human Development Across the Lifespan Flashcards
Accommodation
The act of changing existing mental structures to explain new experiences.
Age of Viability
The age at which a baby can survive.
Assimilation
The cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive understanding. / Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing mental structures without changing them.
Attachment
Close, emotional bonds of affection developed between infants and their caregivers.
Centration
Tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem & neglecting important aspects.
Childhood Cognitive Development
Transitions in children’s pattern of thinking, including reading, remembering, & problem solving.
Cohort effects
When differences in studies can be because groups grew up in different time periods. EX.) To unbiasedly compare 20, 40, & 60 year old’s researcher would have to take into account the different time periods they grew up, some grew up through the women’s movement & so on. Such things have influence over individuals.
Conservation
The awareness that physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in shape or appearance.
Cross-sectional design
Investigators compare groups of participants of differing age at a single point in time.
Crystallized intelligence
The application of accumulated knowledge.
Dementia
An abnormal condition marked by multiple cognitive deficits that include memory impairment.
Development
The sequence of age-related changes that occur between conception & death.
Developmental Norms
Average age at which individuals display various behaviour & abilities.
Habituation
&
Dishabituation
H-A gradual reduction in the strength of a response when a stimulus event is presented repeatedly.
Dh-A new stimulus elicits an increase in the strength of a habituated response.
Egocentrism
The inability to see another view point.
*Animism: belief that all things are living.
Embryonic Stage (development)
The second stage of prenatal development.
Most of vital organs & bodily systems begin to form in the developing organism.
-heart
-spine
-brain
3 Stages of Prenatal development
- Germinal stage (first 2 weeks)
- Embryonic stage (2 weeks to 2 months)
- Fetal stage (2 months to birth)
Family Life Cycle
The sequences of stages that families tend to progress through.
FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)
Congenital (inborn) problems associated with excessive alcohol use during pregnancy.
Fetal Stage
3rd stage The embryo begins to rapidly grow into the fetus, developing major body parts & movement. -bones -sex organs -*age of viability
Fluid Intelligence
Basic information-processing skills