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Vocab 251-300 Flashcards

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1
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Psychological topic which studies how people grow and change from conception to death

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Developmental Psychology
The Lifespan Approach

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Name one psychological problem a child might develop from being spanked or slapped by their parent

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Anxiety
Alcoholism
Reduced Brain Matter
Increased Aggression

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Believing that whipping slaves is wrong, but that whipping a child is ok might produce a certain kind of psychological tension known as what?

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Coming out too strongly against spanking might cause your audience to feel their freedom of choice is being restricted and to decide to ignore your otherwise persuasive argument. What is this called?

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Boomerang Effect

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What term refers to the internally programmed growth of a child?

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Maturation

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What term refers to externally taught changes in behavior?

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Learning

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What term refers to inborn emotional excitability?

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Temperament

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What term refers to anything that can harm an unborn baby?

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Teratogen

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9
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What does FASD stand for?

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

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What causes infants to quietly and mysteriously die in their sleep

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SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

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A correlational study of 4,169 Danish men demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between a mother smoking during pregnancy and her son engaging in what kind of behavior?

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Criminal Behavior

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12
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What is the nickname for the second trimester of pregnancy?

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The Golden Trimester

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What reflex occurs as a clinging response to a touch on the palm of a baby’s hand?

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Grasping Reflex

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What reflex occurs when touching occurs anywhere around a baby’s mouth?

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Rooting Reflex

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What reflex occurs when anything touches a baby’s lips?

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Sucking Reflex

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What reflex occurs when the foot is stroked and the toes spread?

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Babinski Reflex

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17
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What reflex occurs when a baby flings his or her limbs out after being startled?

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Moro Reflex
Startle Reflex

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18
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By what age do babies perceive depth?

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6 Months

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19
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Please name the researcher who coined the term Language Acquisition Device

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Noam Chomsky

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Please name the researcher who coined the term Critical Period

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Eric Lenneberg

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21
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What term is defined as a specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned?

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Critical Period

22
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Please name the psychologist who did extensive research on parenting styles

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Diana Baumrind

23
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Which parenting style allows the child to participate in decision making?

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Democratic

24
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Which parenting style is characterized by parents giving in to their child’s demands?

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Permissive

25
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What kind of parents believe that they do not have to explain their actions or demands?

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Authoritarian

26
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What is the process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born?

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Socialization

27
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Name the researcher who discovered geese form a rapid attachment to their mother through imprinting

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Konrad Lorenz

28
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What term means an inherited tendency of some animals to follow the first moving object they see?

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Imprinting

29
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Name the researcher who studied the relationship between mother and child in rhesus monkeys

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Harry Harlow

30
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Harry Harlow discovered that touching causes baby monkeys to form attachments. What is this called?

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Contact Comfort
Tactile Touch

31
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Name the researcher who studied attachment in human families

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Mary Ainsworth

32
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Name the two main kinds of attachment

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Secure
Insecure

33
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Who established the Cognitive Theory of Development?

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Jean Piaget

34
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Who established the Moral Theory of Development?

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Lawrence Kohlberg

35
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Who established the Psychosexual Theory?

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Sigmund Freud

36
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Who established the Psychosocial Theory?

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Erik Erikson

37
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Name the first stage of Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor

38
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Name the second stage of Cognitive Development

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Pre-Operational

39
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Name the third stage of Cognitive Development

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Concrete Operations

40
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Name the fourth stage of Cognitive Development

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Formal Operations

41
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A conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world

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Schema

42
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The process of fitting new facts into one’s schemas

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Assimilation

43
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The creation of a new schema to include new facts and experiences

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Accommodation

44
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What term is defined as the awareness that objects exist even when they cannot be perceived?

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Object Permanence

45
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What term refers to a young child’s inability to understand another person’s perspective?

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Egocentric

46
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What term is defined as the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance changes?

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Conservation

47
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What influences moral development?

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Cognitive Abilities

48
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What are the three levels of moral development?

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Pre-Conventional
Conventional
Post-Conventional

49
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Psychologist who came up with the 5 stages of grief

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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

50
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What are the fives stages of grief?

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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