Ch. 4 Development Psych

Question 0

The fertilized egg: it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

Answer 0

Zygote

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Development psychology

Question 2

The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

Answer 2

Embryo

Question 3

The developing human from a weeks after conception to birth

Answer 3

Fetus

Question 4

Agents, such as chemicals and viruses

Can effect pregnancy bad

Answer 4

Teratogens

Question 5

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children cause by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking (FAS)

Answer 5

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 6

A baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek to turn toward the touch, open the mouth and search for the nipple

Answer 6

Rooting reflex

Question 7

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Answer 7

Habituation

Question 8

Biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

Answer 8

Maturation

Question 9

Believed that the driving force behind intellectual developments in our biological development
(4 stages)

Answer 9

Jean Piaget

Question 10

Concept or framework that organizes and interprets new information

Answer 10

Schemas

Question 11

Interpreting ones new experience in terms of ones existing schemas

Answer 11

Assimilation

Question 12

Adapting ones content understanding to incorporate new information

Answer 12

Accommodation

Question 13

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Answer 13

Cognition

Question 14

Babies take in the world by looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping
(Senses)

Answer 14

Sensorimotor stage

Question 15

Objects that are out of sight are also out of mind

Answer 15

Object permanence

Question 16

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain in the same despite changes in forms of objects
(Ex: water in glasses)

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Conservation

Question 17

In Piagets theory, the preoperational Childs difficultly in taking another’s point of view
(Think ego is too big)

Answer 17

Egocentrism

Question 18

Ability to understand another’s mental state when they begin forming a theory of mind

Answer 18

Theory of mind

Question 19

Disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication social, interaction and understand of others states of mind

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Autism

Question 20

6-7 during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

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Concrete operational stage

Question 21

Around 12, during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

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Formal operational stage

Question 22

Is the fear of strangers that develops at around 8 months

Answer 22

Stranger anxiety

Question 23

Studied attachment differences by observing mother-infant pairs at home during their first 6 months

Answer 23

Mary Ainsworth

Question 24

An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation

Answer 24

Attachment