Developemental Psychology

Question 1

Teratogens

Answer 1

Agents such as toxins, viruses, and drugs, can damage an embryo or fetus

Question 2

Reflex

Answer 2

An action that is performed as a response to a stimulus and without conscious thought.

Question 3

Puberty

Answer 3

The time when adolescence mature sexually.

Question 4

Emerging adulthood

Answer 4

In prosperous communities, the time from 18 to the mid-20s is an increasingly not get settled phase of life, which some now call emerging adulthood.

Question 5

Habituation

Answer 5

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants game familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.

Question 6

Maturation

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Schema

Answer 7

The concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Question 8

Assimilate

Answer 8

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

Question 9

Accommodate

Answer 9

And developmental psychology, adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. In sensation and perception the process by which the eyes lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.

Question 10

Conversation

Answer 10

The principle which piaget believe to be a part of concrete operational reasoning that property such as mass, volume and number remain the same despite changes in forms of objects.

Question 11

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 11

In Piaget’s theory, The stage from birth to about two years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

Question 12

Formal operational stage

Answer 12

In Piaget’s theory, The stage of cognitive development normally beginning about age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Question 13

Identity

Answer 13

Our sense of self according to Ericsson the adolescents task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles

Question 14

Identity vs. role confusion

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Occurs during the fifth stage of psychosocial development and typically falls between the ages of 13 and 18 the traditional years of adolescents

Question 15

Intimacy vs isolation

Answer 15

During the period of time, the major conflict centers on forming intimate, loving relationships with other people

Question 16

Three issues for developmental psychologist

Answer 16

Nature and nurture
Continuity and stages
Stability and change