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Development

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Refers to the physiological, behavioural, cognitive and social changes that occur throughout the human life

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Infancy

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Development stage that begins at birth and continues to one year of age

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Childhood

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The period between infancy and the onset of puberty

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Adolescence

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Years between the inset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood

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What was Robert Klark Graham right about

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Nature plays a substantial part of development

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Conception

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When an egg is fertilized by sperm

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Ovulation

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When an egg which has ben stored in the mothers ovaries, matures and is released into the fallopian tube

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Zygote

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A ferilized egg

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Embryo

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Once the zygote attaches to the wall of the uterus, it is known as embryo

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Embryonic Stage

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Lasts for 6 weeks. Major internal and external organs formed

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Aminotic Sac

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Fluid filled reservoir in which the embryo will live until birth

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Placenta

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Organ that allows the exchange of nutrients between the embryo and the mother.

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Umbilical cord

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Links the embryo directly to the placenta and transfers all material to the fetus

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Fetus

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Beginning of the 9th week of conception, embryo becomes a fetus

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Teratogens

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Substances that can harm the fetus

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Condition caused by maternal alcohol drinking that can lead ti numerous development effects, including limb and facial abnormalities, genital abnormalities and intellectual disability

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Rooting Reflex

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Stimuli: Baby cheek is stroked
Response: Baby turns its head toward the stroking, open its mouth and tires to suck
Significance: Ensures the infants feeding will be a reflexive habit

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Blink Reflex

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Stimulus: A light is flashed in the baby eyes
Response: The baby closes both eyes
Significance: Protects eyes from strong and potentially dangerous stimuli

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Withdrawl Reflex

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Stimulus: A soft pinprick is applied to the sole of the babys foot
Response: The baby reflexes the leg
Significance: Keeping the exploring infant away from painful stimuli

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Tonic Neck Reflex

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Stimulus: Baby is laid down on its back
Response: Baby turns on its head to one side and extends the arm on the same side
Significance: Helps develop hand eye coordination

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Grasp Reflex

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Stimulus: An object is pressed into the palm of the body.
Response: The baby grasps the object pressed and can even hold its own weight for a brief period
Significance: Helps in exploratory learning

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Moro Reflex

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Stimulus: Loud noises or a sudden drop in height while holding the baby.
Response: The baby extends arms and legs and quickly brings them in as if trying to grasp something.
Significance: Protects from falling; could have assisted infants in holding on to their mothers during rough travelling

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Stepping Reflex

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Stimulus: The baby is suspended with bare feet just above a surface and is moved forward
Response: Baby makes stepping motions and as if trying to walk
Significance: Helps encourage motor development

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Habitutation

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Decreased responsiveness towards a stimulus after it has been presented numerous times in succession

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Schemas
Patterns of knowledge in long term memory
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Assimilation
Use already developed schemas to understand new information
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Accommodation
Learning new information and thus changing the schema
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Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, concrete operational and Formal Operational
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Sensorimotor
Birth to about 2 years: The child experiences the world through the fundamental senses of seeing, hearing, touching and tasting
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Preopreational
2 to 7 years: Children acquire the ability to internally represent the world through language and mental imagery. They also start to see the world from others perspectives. Begin to use language and to think More abstractly about objects.
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Concrete Operational
7 to 11 years: Children become able to think logically. They can increasingly perform operations on objects that are only imagined
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Formal Operational
11 years to adulthood: Adolescents can think systematically, can reason about abstract concepts and can understand ethics and scientific reasoning
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Self concept
Knowledge representation or schema that contains knowledge about us
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Secure Base
Allows them to feel safe
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Strange Situation
Meaure of attachment in young children in which the Childs behaviours are assessed in a situation in which the caregiver and a stranger move in and out of the environment
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Secure attachment style
Explores freely while the mother is present and engages with the stranger
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Ambivalent Attachment Style
Wary about the situation in general, particularly the stranger, and stays close or even clings to the mother rather than exploring the toys
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Avoidant Attachment Style
avoid or ignore the mother, showing little emotion when the mother departs or returns.
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Disorganized Attachment Style
seems to have no consistent way of coping with the stress of the strange situation — the child may cry during the separation but avoid the mother when she returns, or the child may approach the mother but then freeze or fall to the floor.
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Temperament
Innate persoanility characteristics of the infant
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Egocentric
Unable to see and understand other peoples view points
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Theory of Mind
Ability to take another persons view point
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Concrete Operational Stage
Marked by more frequent and more accurate use of transitions, operations and abstract concepts, including those of time, space and numbers.
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Formal Operational Strage
Marked by the ability to think in abstract terms and to use scientific and philosophical lines of thought
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Sociocultural Theory
Cognitive development is not isolated entirely within the child but occurs at lease in part through social interactions.
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Community Learning
Children serve as both teachers and learners
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Self concept
Knowledge representation or schema that contains knowledge about us, including our beliefs about our personality traits, physical characteristics, abilities, values, goals and roles, as well as the knowledge that we exist as individuals
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Social Comparison
Making comparisons with other children
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Competence and Autonomy
The recognition of ones own abilities relative to other children
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Longitudinal Research
Research designs in which individuals in the sample are followed and contacted over an extended period of time, often over multiple developmental stages
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Cross Sectional Research
Age comparisons are made between samples of different people at different ages at one time
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Cohort Effects
Possibility that differences in cognition or behaviour at two points in time may be caused by differences that are unrelated to the changes in age
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Adolescence
Years between the onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood
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Puberty
A developmental period in which hormonal changes cause rapid physical alterations in the body, culminating in sexual activity
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Male Sex Harmones
Testosterone
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Female sex hormones
Estrogen and Progesterone
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Primary sex characteristics
The sex organs concerned with reproduction EXAMPLE: Enlargement of testes
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Secondary Sex Characteristics
Features that distinguish the two sexes from each other but are not involved in reproduction
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Menarche
First menstrual period typically experienced at around 12 or 13 years of age
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Imaginary Audience
In which they feel that everyone is constantly watching them
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James Marcia's Stages of identity development
Identity Diffusion Status Foreclosure Status Moratorium Status Identity Achievement Status
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Identity diffusion
Individual does not have firm commitments regarding the issues in question and is not making progress toward them
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Foreclosure Status
The individual has not engaged in any identity experimentation and has established an identity based on the choices or values of others
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Moratorium Status
Individual exploring various choices but has not yet made a clear commitment to any of them
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Identity Achievement Status
Individual has attained a coherent and committed identity based on personal decisions
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Social Identity
Part of the self concept that is derived from ones group memberships
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Morality
Standards of behaviour that are generally agrees on within a culture to be right or proper
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Early Adulthood
Ages between 25 and 45
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Middle Adulthood
Ages between 45 and 65
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Parenting Styles
Parental behaviours that determine the nature of parent - child interactions
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Authoritarian Parenting
Demanding but not responsive. They impose rules and expect obedience. Dictator like
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Permissive Parenting
Make few demands and give little punishment
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Authoritative Parenting
Demanding but also responsive to the needs of the child
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Rejecting neglecting Parenting
undemanding and unresponsive overall
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Menopause
The cessation of menstrual cycle, which occurs around age 50
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Social Clock
Culturally preferred "right time" for major life events
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Late Adulthood
Final Life Stage, Beginning in the 60s
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Crystallized Intelligence
General knowledge about the world, as reflected in semantic knowledge, vocabulary and language
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Fluid Intelligence
Ability to acquire and think information quickly and abstractly
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Dementia
Progressive Neurological disease that includes loss of cognitive abilities significant enough to interfere with everyday behaviours
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Alzheimers Disease
Form of dementia that ever a period of years leads to a loss of emotions, cognitions and physical functioning, and that is ultimately fatal
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Stages of Death
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
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Sex
Biological category of male or female
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Gender
Refers to the cultural, social and psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity and femininity
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Gender Roles
Behaviours, attitudes and personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine in a given culture
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Gender Stereotypes
beliefs and expectations people hold about the typical characteristics of men and women
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Gender Identity
Psychological sense of being male or female
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Sexual Orientation
the direction of their emotional and erotic attraction toward members of the opposite sex, the same sex, or both sexes.
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Development Intergroup Theory
Adults heavy focus on gender leads children to pay attention to gender as a key source of information about themselves

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