Chapter 10

Question 1

Accommodation

Answer 1

modify or change schema to fit a new situation

Question 2

Adolescence

Answer 2

The developmental stage that occurs from puberty to maturity, lasting from about ages 12 to 18

Question 3

Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer 3

progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to generalized degeneration of the brain

Question 4

Anal Stage

Answer 4

Child derives pleasure from the process of defecation. Anal retentive personality.

Question 5

Anxious-ambivalent attachement

Answer 5

very difficult to console, appear to be angry.

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

new elements are fitted into pre-exisiting schemas

Question 7

Attachement

Answer 7

establishment of a close emotional bond to someone

Question 8

Avoidant attachement

Answer 8

doesn’t care when the mom leaves the room..

Question 9

Concrete operational stage

Answer 9

Age 7-11. Children can perform operations only on images off tangible objects and actual events.

Question 10

Conservation

Answer 10

you change the form of an object, but does not alter physical property

Question 11

Critical Period

Answer 11

optimal period after birth when an organisms exposure to certain stimuli produces proper development

Question 12

Cross-sectional study

Answer 12

investigators compare groups of participants of differing age at a sing point in time.

Question 13

Dizygotic twins

Answer 13

Fraternal, meaning that they develop from two eggs, each fertilized by separate sperm cells.

Question 14

Egocentrism

Answer 14

child can not take the perspective of another human being

Question 15

Electra Complex

Answer 15

You love your father and show aggression towards your mother.

Question 16

Embryo

Answer 16

2 weeks into pregnancy- end of 2nd month; organs and systems begin to form and the organism is called an embryo

• begins to look human
• most miscarriages happen at this stage

Question 17

Fetus

Answer 17

2 months into pregnancy until birth; develops muscles and bones and sex organs and brain, the fetus can move

Question 18

Formal operational stage

Answer 18

Age 11+. Children begin to apply their operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects.

Question 19

gender

Answer 19

refers to culturally constructed distinctions between femininity and masculinity.

Question 20

gender identitiy

Answer 20

your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence

Question 21

Genital stage

Answer 21

The establishment and maintenance of standard heterosexual relationships.

Question 22

imprinting

Answer 22

the powerful attraction of infants in some species to the caregiver right after birth.

Question 23

latency stage

Answer 23

Psychosexual issues are supressed and/or go dormant.

Question 24

maturation

Answer 24

development that reflects the gradual unfolding of one’s genetic blueprint.

Question 25

menarche

Answer 25

first occurrence of menstruation

Question 26

menopause

Answer 26

the ceasing of menstruation.

Question 27

monozygotic twins

Answer 27

Identical, meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos

Question 28

object permanence

Answer 28

an object still exists even when you don't see it.

Question 29

Oedipus Complex

Answer 29

You love your mother, and show aggression towards your father.

Question 30

oral stage

Answer 30

primary source of pleasure comes from sucking

Question 31

phallic stage

Answer 31

Child discovers that genital stimulation is pleasurable

Question 32

preoperational stage

Answer 32

Age 2-7, children gradually improve in their use of mental images

Question 33

psychosexual stages

Answer 33

Sigmund Freud. Stages based on erogenous zones and libido(sex drive)

Question 34

puberty

Answer 34

the stage during which sexual functions reach maturity, marks beginning of adolescence.

Question 35

secure attachment

Answer 35

Infant is easy to console

Question 36

sensorimotor stage

Answer 36

From birth to 2 years old. Infants develop the ability to coordinate their sensory input with their motor actions.

Question 37

stranger anxiety

Answer 37

physical distress displayed by an infant when in the presence of a stranger.

Question 38

teratogens

Answer 38

an agent or factor that causes malformation of an embryo.

Question 39

zygote

Answer 39

one celled organism founded by the union of a sperm and egg cell.