Unit 8 vocabulary (development) Flashcards
Accommodation
Changing schemas to host new things
Adolescence
Transition from kid to adults
Alzheimer’s disease
Mental deterioration in old age
Assimilation
Fitting new experiences into old schemas
Attachment
Emotional tie with another person
Babinski reflex
Reflex of the foot
Concrete operational stage
Logic and concrete events stage
Conservation
Unit of measurements stays the same despite different containers
Critical period
Best time and development for exposure
Cross-sectional study
Different ages are compared
Developmental psychology
Psychology studying development
Egocentrism
Kids think their point of view is the same as others
Embryo
Two weeks through second month of development
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Abnormalities in development caused by an alcoholic mother
Fetus
Nine weeks and on in development
Formal operational stage
Logic and abstract concepts stage
Gender
Socially constructed roles
Gender identity
Our sense of gender
Habituation
Decreased responsiveness to repeated stimulation
Imprinting
Forming strong attachments in early life
Inner speech
Silent expression of conscious thought
Longitudinal study
People are re studied and retested after long periods of time
Maturation
Biological growth process of behavior
Menarche
First menstrual period
Menopause
Time of natural cessation of menstruation
Moro reflex
Infant feels as if it is falling after loss of support
Object permanence
Things still exist when out of sight
Preoperational stage
Child uses language but doesn’t have concrete logic
Puberty
Sexual maturation
Rooting reflex
Infant smooth face towards what touch them to find nipple
Schemas
Files we store info in
Sensorimotor stage
Infant explore world in terms of senses
Teratogens
Developmentally harmful agents in womb
Zone of proximal development
Difference between what one can and can’t do
Zygote
Fertilized egg up to two weeks
