ch.22

Question 1

accommodation

Answer 1

process by which intellectual acts are changed to handle increasingly complex information

Question 2

assimilation

Answer 2

process by which a person interprets information to fit the current level of cognition

Question 3

cognitive development

Answer 3

learning that occurs as a result of the internal organization of an event

Question 4

epigenetics

Answer 4

study of the changes that occur in organisms due to modification of gene expression and hereditability

Question 5

epigenomics

Answer 5

epigenetic changes that occur in many genes or the entire organism

Question 6

genome

Answer 6

all the DNA in an organism, including its genes

Question 7

genomics

Answer 7

study of the structure and interactions of all genes in the human body, including their interactions with each other as well as the environment

Question 8

growth

Answer 8

an increase in body size or changes in body cell structure, function, and complexity

Question 9

heredity

Answer 9

passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another

Question 10

moral development

Answer 10

influence of cultural effects on one’s perceptions of justice in interpersonal relationships

Question 11

development

Answer 11

an orderly pattern of changes in behavior

Question 12

genomics

Answer 12

study of structure and interactions of all the genes in the human body

Question 13

id

Answer 13

self gratification

Question 14

ego

Answer 14

conscious part of the mind, mediates between id and reality
-considers social norms to decide how to behave

Question 15

superego

Answer 15

conscience

Question 16

Piaget Theory

Answer 16

birth-3 years (sensorimotor)
3-7 years (preoperational)
7-12 years (concrete operational)
12-15 years (formal operational)

Question 17

freud development stage

Answer 17

birth - 18 months (oral)
18m- 3 years (anal)
3-7 years (phallic)
7-12 years (latency)
12-20 years (genital)

Question 18

Gould’s theory

Answer 18

transformaton

Question 19

levinsons theory

Answer 19

evolution of individual life structures
-adults move through periods of stability and transition throughout their lives

Question 20

Gilligan’s Theory

Answer 20

girls and women develop morality of response and care and men develop a morality of justice

Question 21

fowlers

Answer 21

spiritual identity