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Developmental Psychology Lecture 2-Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy Flashcards

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Apart from prenatal development, the greatest degree of physical change occurs when?

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During the first 2 years of life

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Synaptogenesis:

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Formation of connections (synapse) among neurons
Proceeds rapidly during the brain growth spurt

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Synaptic Pruning:

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Refinement and elimination of neurons
Begins near the time of birth and completed near end of sexual maturation

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Plasticity:

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Capacity for changes; a developmental state that has the potential to be shaped by experience

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Myelination:

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Is the process by which neurons are enclosed in waxy myelin sheaths that will facilitate the transmission of neural impulses (creates efficiency!!!)

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What parts of the brain develop first?

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The lower subcortical brain regions (primitive areas and regions)

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What parts of brain develop last?

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Higher order functions, things that control executive functioning (pre frontal cortex) develop last

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By 6 months what happens to infants brain?

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primary motor areas of the cerebral cortex directs most of the infant’s movements
Inborn responses disappear by now (palmar grasp)

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What are newborn reflexes?

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Involuntary, automatic responses to stimuli

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What are survival Reflexes:

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Help newborns survive
Some survival reflexes disappear in infancy or childhood but others persist throughout life (swallowing)

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What are primitive reflexes?

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Are controlled by primitive parts of the brain
Disappear by about 6 months of age - not being used as much
Babinski, palmer

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Cries

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Basic Cry
Angry Cry
Pain Cry

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Does picking up your baby when they cry reduce amount of crying later on?

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YES

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Colic:

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An infant behavior pattern of unknown cause, involving intense daily bouts of crying, totalling 3 or more hours a day for several months

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What is prenatal bone structure like?

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soft cartilage that gradually hardens into bony material (ossification)

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What is bone structure like at birth?

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most of infant’s bones are soft, pliable and difficult to break

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When is a child’s skull formed?

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by age 2 will pliable points (sutures)

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Locomotor skills (gross motor)-

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crawling

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Manipulative Skills (fine motor control)-

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use of hands and fingers

20
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When should routine immunization check-up commence

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2 months

21
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What is sensation

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A mental process resulting from the external information experienced through the sensory organs and transmitted to the brain

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What is perception?

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The interpretation of sensory input

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What is Visual Acuity:

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How well one can see details at a distance

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What is babies visual acuity compared to adults?

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40 times worse but reach adult visual acuity at around age 7
Prefer to have moderately complex patterns

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Tracking?

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The ability to track and follow a moving object

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Color vision

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Very similar to adults

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Which sense is best developed of them all in infants?

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Touch and Motion

26
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3 different methods researchers will use to look at perceptual skills

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Preference Technique
Habituation/dishabituation
operant conditioning

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Stereopsis

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Depth perception:
by 3 months of age (both eyes come together to create one image)

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What is sleeper effect?

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When early experience is lacking, visual capability fails to develop normally many years later

29
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what is Intermodal Perception:

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(reaching behind back into bag example in class)
Formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from 2 or more sense (seen later on in infant development)

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Cross-Modal Transfer:

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The transfer of information from one sense to another

31
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Who influenced study of cognitive development?

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Piaget

32
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The majority of neurons a person has are formed by when?

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Most neurons are formed by second trimester before brain growth spurt

33
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Jamie has brown eyes even though one of his biological parents has blue eyes. Genes for blue eyes are part of Jamie’s:
genotype
phenotype
genotype and phenotype
cannot be determined from the information given

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genotype

34
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According to the principles of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, _____ shape our responses to new information.

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Schemes

35
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Intermodal perception is the formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from two or more senses
T
F

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T

36
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Early development of brain

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Synaptogenesis
Synaptic pruning
Plasticity

37
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Schemas:

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The organization of experiences into expectancies, or “known” combinations
Schematic learning involves categories
Behaviors are schemes that we are constantly adapting and adjusting to be more complicated and more complex

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Milestones of sensorimotor stage

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  1. Reflexive schemes (birth-1 month) newborn reflexes
    2.Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months) Simple motor habits centers around own body
    3.Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months) Repeat interesting effects in soundings
    4.Coordination of secondary circular reactions (8-12 months) Intentional, goal-directed behavior
  2. Tertiary circular reactions (12-18 months) Explore properties of objects through novel actions
    6.Mental Representations (18 months-2 years) Internal depictions of objects or events;defferd limitation
39
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When do babies start to develop imitation

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During the tertiary circular reactions

40
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Main milestones of sensorimotor stage

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Imitation
Object permenance
(Invisible displacement)

41
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When do young kids develop object permenance?

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by around 2 years old

42
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What would a behaviorist think about language

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That it is learned through reinforcement

43
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What would a natavist think about language

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language acquisition device, born with it

44
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What would aninteractionist think about language

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That it involves both nature and nurture

45
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Infant-directed speech (IDS)

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simplified, higher-pitched speech that adults use with infants and young children

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