chap 1-6

Question 1

perception that is primed to focus on movement and change

Answer 1

dynamic perception

Question 2

Chomsky’s term for a hypothesized mental structure that enables humans to learn language

Answer 2

language acquisition device

Question 3

sudden increase in an infants vocabulary, begins about 18 months

Answer 3

naming explosion

Question 4

single word that is used to express a complete meaningful thought

Answer 4

holophrase

Question 5

high pitched simplified and repetitive way adults speak to infants

Answer 5

child directed speech

Question 6

an opportunity for perception and interaction that is offered by a person, place or object in the environment

Answer 6

affordance

Question 7

perspective that compares human thinking processes to computers

Answer 7

information processing theory

Question 8

the process of getting used to an object or event through repeated exposure to it

Answer 8

habituation

Question 9

a sequence in which an infant first perceives something that someone else does and then performs the same later

Answer 9

deferred imitation

Question 10

stage 5 toddler 12-18 month who experiments without anticipating results (paiget)

Answer 10

little scientist

Question 11

active exploration and experimentation

Answer 11

tertiary circular reactions

Question 12

realization that objects still exist when they can no longer see them

Answer 12

object permanence

Question 13

infants responding to people other people, toys, and to any other ongject

Answer 13

secondary circular reactions

Question 14

infants senses motion sucking, noise and other stimuli

Answer 14

primary circular reactions

Question 15

paiget term for the way infants think

Answer 15

sensorimotor intelligence

Question 16

disease of chronic malnutrition during childhood in which protein deficiency makes the more vulnerable to other diseases

Answer 16

Kwashiorkor

Question 17

disease of severe protein calorie malnutrition during early infancy in which growth stops, body tissues waste away, infant eventually dies

Answer 17

marasmus

Question 18

tendency for children to be severely underweight for their age as a result in malnutrition.

Answer 18

wasteing

Question 19

the failure of children to grow to a normal height for their age due to severe and chronic malnutition

Answer 19

stunting

Question 20

condtion in which a person does not consume sufficient food of any kind,can result in severe illness, weight loss ,or death

Answer 20

protein calorie malnutrition

Question 21

inborn drive to remedy a developmental deficit,

Answer 21

self-righting

Question 22

are of the cortex, specializes in anticipation, planning, and imlpuse control

Answer 22

prefrontal coretx

Question 23

brain functions that require certain basic common experience in order to develop normally

Answer 23

experience expectant brain function

Question 24

great but temporary increase in the number of dendrites that occurs in infants brain during the first 2 years of life

Answer 24

transient exuberance

Question 25

fiber that extends from a neuron and receives electrochemical impulses

Answer 25

dendrite

Question 26

fiber that extends from a neuron and transmits electochemical impulses

Answer 26

axon

Question 27

outer layer of the brain

Answer 27

cortex

Question 28

billions of nerve cells in the central nervous system

Answer 28

neurons

Question 29

symptoms of pregnancy and birth experienced by fathers

Answer 29

couvade

Question 30

lack of oxygen

Answer 30

anoxia

Question 31

5 lbs infant

Answer 31

SGA small for gestational

Question 32

birth 3 or more weeks before the full 38 weeks

Answer 32

preterm

Question 33

less than 2lbs 3oz infant

Answer 33

ELBW extremely low birth weight

Question 34

less than 3lbs 5oz infant

Answer 34

VLBW very low birth weight

Question 35

less than 5.5 lbs infant

Answer 35

LBW low birth weight

Question 36

situation in which a certain teratogen is relatively harmless in small doses but becomes harmful once exposure reaches a certain level

Answer 36

threshold effect

Question 37

agent and conditions that can harm the prenatal brain, impairing the future child's intellectual and emotional function

Answer 37

behavioral teratogens

Question 38

women who helps with the birthing process

Answer 38

doula

Question 39

referring to environmental factors that affect genes and gentic exoression

Answer 39

epigenetic

Question 40

trait influenced by many genes

Answer 40

polygentic

Question 41

observable characteristics of a person

Answer 41

phenotype

Question 42

fraternal twins

Answer 42

dizygotic twins

Question 43

identical twins

Answer 43

monozygotic twins

Question 44

xy zygotes become males

Answer 44

xx become females

Question 45

detemines sex

Answer 45

23rd pair

Question 46

genetic potential

Answer 46

genotype

Question 47

full set of genes

Answer 47

genome

Question 48

variation that makes a gene different

Answer 48

allele

Question 49

aspects of each of the various theories

Answer 49

eclectic perspective

Question 50

needs and impluses that all humans share

Answer 50

universal perspective

Question 51

conditioning through stimulus and responses

Answer 51

behaviorism (Watson)

Question 52

battle of unconscious

Answer 52

psychoanalytic threory (Freud)

Question 53

process by which living things adjust to their environment

Answer 53

selective adaptation

Question 54

theory all humans potential for good and all have same basic needs

Answer 54

Humanism (Maslow)

Question 55

developmental results from the dynamic interaction of each person with the surrounding forces

Answer 55

socioculture (Vygotsky)

Question 56

restructuring of old ideas to include new experiances

Answer 56

accomidation

Question 57

reinterpretation of new experiences to fit old ideas

Answer 57

assimilation

Question 58

focuses on changes in how people think over time

Answer 58

cognitive theory (Piaget)

Question 59

sensorimotor- birth -2 yrs preoperational 2-6 yrs concrete operational 6-11 formal operational 12 -

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periods of cognitive development

Question 60

based on observations,repeated experience, verifiable experiments

Answer 60

emperical

Question 61

people whose ancestors were born in the same region

Answer 61

Ethnic group

Question 62

group of people who are regarded by themselves or by other as distant from of groups, based on physical appearance

Answer 62

Race

Question 63

research designed that compares group of people who differ in age but are similar in other important characterisitics

Answer 63

cross-sectional research

Question 64

research designed in which the same people are followed over time and their development is repeatedly assessed

Answer 64

longitudinal research

Question 65

hybrid research designed which researchers first study several groups of people of different ages and then followed those groups over time

Answer 65

cross-sequential research

Question 66

research that provides data that can be expressed with numbers

Answer 66

quantitative research

Question 67

research that considers qualities instead of quantities

Answer 67

qualitative research