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Unit 6: Review Flashcards

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Developmental Psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan

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Continuity and stages

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What parts of development are gradual and what parts are abruptly in separate stages

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Stability and change

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Which of our traits persist through life? How do we change as we age?

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What did Lawrence Kohlberg come up with?

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Moral Development

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What did Erik Erikson come up with?

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Psychological development

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What did Jean Piaget come up with?

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Cognitive development

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Conception

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Begins with the release of the egg from the ovary, and 250 million deposited sperm. One sperm penetrates the coating and within hours, they fuse

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Germinal stage

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First 10-14 days, the zygote undergoes rapid cell division

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How does the zygote become an embryo?

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After the germinal stage, it attaches to the uterine wall and becomes and embryo from about 37 weeks.

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Embryo vs Placenta

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The zygote’s inner cells become the embryo and the outer ones become the placenta

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Fetal stage

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After about 9 weeks, the facial features, hands, and feet form

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Teratogens

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Agents, such as chemicals or viruses, that can reach the embryo during development and cause harm (Ex. Alcohol)

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Lifelong physical and mental abnormalities due to drinking while pregnant

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Rooting reflex

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The baby turns its head when the corner of its mouth is stroked

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Sucking reflex

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When the roof of the mouth is stroked, the baby will suck

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Grasping reflex

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Stroking the palm of a baby’s hand causes it to close its fingers

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Startle Reflex

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The baby throws back its head and extends and pulls back its arms and legs and cries when it hears a loud sound or sudden movement.

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Babinski reflex

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Extended toes after the sole of the foot is stroked

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Habituation

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Decreased responsiveness with repeated stimulation

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Maturation

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Biological growth process, uninfluenced by experience

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Sequence of development for babies

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3 months - rolling over
6 months - sitting unsupported
8-9 months - crawling
12 months - beginning to walk
15 months - walking independently

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Infantile Amnesia

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Cannot create memories before the age of 3

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Jean Piaget

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Believed that children moved from stage to stage as they matured and were exposed to relevant types of experiences

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Schema

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Mental mold to which we pour our experiences

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Assimilation

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Interpreting new information in terms of an existing schema

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Accommodation

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Changing the existing schema to incorporate new information

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Piagets stages of Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational

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Sensorimotor

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Experiences the world with their 5 senses. 0-2 years old

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Preoperational

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Developing language and symbolic thinking. They are egocentric. 2-7 years old

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Egocentric

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Cannot perceive things from another’s point of view

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Concrete Operational

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Developing the ability to think in a more logical manner. 7-12 years old. No longer egocentric and mater the idea of conservation

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Formal Operational

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Abstract reasoning, they approach problems systematically

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Stranger Anxiety

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Fear of strangers, develops around 8 months

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Authoritarian

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Rigid, punitive and demand unquestioning obedience from their children. Children tend to be unsociable, unfriendly, and withdrawn

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Permissive

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Parents give children relaxed or inconsistent direction and require little of them. Children tend to be immature, moody, dependent, and have low self-control

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Authoritative

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Democratic and firm, setting limits and goals for their children, but explaining them and also letting the children have some role in making decisions and setting goals. Children tend to be likeable, reliant, and independent

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Uninvolved

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Show little interest in children and are emotionally detached. Children tend to feel unloved and emotionally detached

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Attachment

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Positive emotional bond that develops between child and individuals

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Imprinting

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Learning occurring at a particular age or life stage, rapid and independent of the consequences of that behavior

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Harry Harlow

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Monkey experiment, shows that attachment was about comfort, applies to humans

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Mary Ainsworth

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Experiment which measured the level of attachment with the mother by having the mother leave the room and an adult stranger enter. Found securely attached and insecurely attached children

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Securely Attached

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Use mom as ‘home base’, shows distress when she leaves and goes to her when she returns

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Insecurely Attached - avoidant

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Does not cry when mom leaves and avoids her when she returns

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Insecurely Attached - ambivalent

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Displays anxiety when the mom is in the room and are upset when she leaves, but when she returns they may go up to her and hit or kick her

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Adolescence

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Begins with puberty, sex organs mature. Affects self-image

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Early vs. late maturation

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Early maturing - have a more positive self-concept
Late maturing - can produce a psychological difficulty for boys and girls

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Lawrence Kohlberg levels of moral development

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Preconventional, Conventional, Postconventional

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Preconventional

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Performs actions based on rewards or punishment

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Conventional

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Interested in pleasing others and doing what is right by social laws

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Postconventional

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Use higher reasoning to guide behavior, many people never make it to this reasoning

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Erik Erikson Ideas

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Created the stages of psychosocial development

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Trust vs. Mistrust

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0-18 months, “Can I trust the world?”

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Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt

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18 months - 3 years, “Do I have some control over my life?”

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Initiative vs. Guilt

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3-6, “Am I Capable of doing things for myself”

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Industry vs. Inferiority

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6-11, “Am I capable of doing things socially?”, compares self to others

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Identity vs. Role Confusion

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12-20, “Who am I and where is my place in this world”

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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20-30, “Can I love and be loved?”

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Generativity vs. Stagnation

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30-65, “Am I productive and giving something back to the world?”

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Integrity vs. Despair

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65+, “Has it all be worth it”

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Midlife Transistion

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One may questions their life & accomplishments, due to the idea that life will end at sometime

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Emerging adulthood

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Period of late teens to mid-twenties, Bridges gap between adolescence and adulthood

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Menopause

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Natural cessation of menstruations. Biological changes as ability to reproduce declines

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Physical changes of late adulthood

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Thinning and graying hair, skin wrinkling, slowed reaction time, changes in physical stamina

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Activity theory of aging

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People who age most successfully are those who main the interests, activates, and level of social interaction they experienced during middle adulthood

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Elisabeth Kubler-Roth

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Developed the five stages of grief

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5 stages of grief

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Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance

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Men vs. Women (Agression)

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Males are more aggressive, more support for war, murder rate is 9 to 1

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Men vs. Women (Leadership)

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Men are more directive, even autocratic
Women are more democratic, more welcoming of other’s input

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Tend and Befriend

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When coping with stress, women more than men turn to others for support

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Gener Roles

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Expected behaviors for males or females

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Gender Identity

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Person’s sense of being male or female

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Gender typing

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Acquisition of traditional masculine or feminine role

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Lev Vygotsky

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Developed the zone of proximal development

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Zone of proximal development

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What a child can and can’t do with help

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Autism

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Appears in childhood is marked by deficiencies in communication and social interaction.

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