Developmental Flashcards

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accommondation

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modifying existing cog structure to adjust to reality demands

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acoustic

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pitch, tone, and volume

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Activity theory

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old age is fulfilling when remains active

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Ainsworth’s attachment patterns

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secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized-disoriented

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assimilation

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incorporating new info into existing cog structures

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Authoritarian parenting

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controlling and require unquestioned obedience

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Authoritative parenting

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firm, fair, and reasonable

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babinski reflex

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spreading toes and twisting foot

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Baumrind’s Parenting Patterns

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authoritarian, permissive (indifferent/indulgent), authoritative

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Bronfenbrenner’ ecological model

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microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Equal educational opportunities

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Buckly admendment

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federal law giving student over 18 and their parents the right to access school records

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centrism

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inabilty to focus on more than one aspect of problem at a time

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chronosystem

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role of the passage of time in the person’s life

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Cognitive play stages

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repetitive, constructive, imaginative, formal games with rules

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critical period of development

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if certain things don’t occur, unable to compensate

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Decalage

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unevenness in development in any area

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deep dyslexia

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mistakenly reads a given word as one with similar meaning

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Down’s syndrome

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three chromosomes on 21; metal retardation, broad skull, slanted eyes

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echolalia

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imitation of sounds without comprehension

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Elkind’s adolescent thinking

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personal fable, imaginary audience

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embryonic period

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2 wks until 8-12 wks

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epigenesis

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dev occur in a series of stages

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Erikson’s psychosocial stages

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hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, wisdom

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exosystem
rel between two or more systems where one is indirect
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fetal period
8-12 wks until birth
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Gender-Schema theory
children use gender as a schema to organize their world
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genotype
genetic makeup of a person - both expressed and unexpressed
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germinal period
first 2 wks; zygote divides and implants itself onto uterus wall
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Gilligan's moral dev theory
Justice (men); Caring (women): individual survival, self-sacrifice, nonviolence
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grasp reflex
making a firm fist
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Griefing stages
numbness, yearning, disorganization & despair, resolution/reorganization
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Harry Harlow
monkeys' contact comfort
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Health belief model
perceptions of vulnerablity and beliefs about illness influences health behavior
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Hemophilia
excessive bleeding, mostly males
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holophrasic speech
says the first word (10-14 mos)
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imaginary audience
everyone is thinking about the same things, regarding themselves
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Inductive discipline
calling attention to neg consequences for others of child's beh
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Information processing
focuses on quantitative changes that occur over the life span
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inhibition
interference in learning
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John Bowlby's Maternal Deprivation Syndrome
Protest, Despair, Detachment
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Klinefelter's syndrome
XXY, only in men, taller, lower IQ, abnormal dev of sex characteristics
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Kohlberg's moral reasoning theory
preconventional (4-10), conventional (10+), postconventional (13+)
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Kubler-Ross Stages confronting own death (DABDA)
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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Larry R. vs. Riles
banned the use of IQ tests for placing children in educable retarded classes (disproportionate amount of minority students)
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Levinson's Seaons of a Man's Life theory
Early, Entering, Age 30, Settling down, Mid-life, Middle, Age 50, Late
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Lorenz attachment
duckling imprinted 12-17 hrs after birth
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macrosystem
culture, religion, economy and political systems
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Mahler's developmental stages
normal infantile autism, symbiosis, differentiation, practicing, rapprochment, object constancy
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Marcia's adolescence dev stages
identity achievement, foreclosures, moratorium, identity diffusion
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menarche
first mentrual period
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mesosystem
interaction between various microsystems
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microsystem
everyday environment the person encounters
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moro reflex
extending legs, arms,and fingers, and arching back
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morpheme
smallest meaningful unit of speech (daddy)
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myelination
continue brain development: speed, attention, etc < 20s
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neglect
misreads first or last half of words
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object constancy
maintain image and unify good and bad of the mother
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object permanence
people continue to exist even when the child cannot see them
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perinatal period
1 pound of weight (in utero) to one month after birth
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personal fable
belief self as special and rules don't apply to them
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phenotype
observable characteristics of the person
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phoneme
smallest unit of speech (da)
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phonological dyslexia
cannot read non-words aloud
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Piaget's moral dev theory
heteronomous morality (5-10), autonomous morality (10+)
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Piaget's stage theory
sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operational (7-11), formal operational (11+)
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PKU (Phenylketonuria)
metabolic disorder, mental retardation; autosomal recessive
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plasticity
flexibility in functioning, recover from brain damage; < 7-8y.o.
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primary aging
wear-and-tear theory
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rooting reflex
turning head, opening mouth, sucking
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
speakers of different languages think differently
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scaffolding
teachers adjust their levels of help base on child's performance
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secondary aging
results from desease, disues, and neglect of body
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semantic
meaning
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sensitive period of development
if certain things don't occur, may be able to compensate
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sexual dimorphism
systematic differences between different sex in the same species
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Sickle-cell anemia
mostly in Af-Ams, deformed, fragile red blood cells that clog vessels
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Social buffer hypothesis
perception of having an adequate social network reduces risk of emotional distress
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Social play stages
solitary, parallel, associative, cooperative
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spermarche
first ejaculation
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surface dyslexia
cannot recognize words, but sounds them out
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syntactic
grammatical
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telegraphic speech
puts two words together (18-24 mos)
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Temperament types
easy temperament, difficult temperament, slow-to-warm-up infants
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teratogens
drugs, toxins, other environmental agents that interfere with normal prenatal dev
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Turner's syndrome
X0, in women, no menstruation, no ovulation
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Vygotsky's social dev theory of cognition
cognitive dev results from social interaction
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zone of proximal development
difference between what can do w/ or w/o help