Exam 1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
What are the stages of the lifespan?
Prenatal Infancy Early childhood Middle childhood Adolescence Emerging adulthood Adulthood Late adulthood
Explain bio social development
It is physical development
What is cognitive development?
Mental development/how we think
Describe psychosocial development
It is emotional development
What is the Microsystem? Exosystem? Chronosystem? Mesosystem? Macrosystem?
Personal relationships
Institutions in society that don’t directly affect one
Events that happen over time that affect multiple people
Relationships of Microsystems
Culture of society
What does the dependent variable study?
Independent variable?
The behavior
The special treatment
What is a cross sequential study?
Longitudinal?
Cross sectional?
A combination of cross sectional and longitudinal
The same group of people over time
Different age groups of people
What is race?
A group of people that are more genetically similar than others outside that group
What is a social construction?
A perception of society; the way society views or sees something as a whole
What happens/when is the germinal period?
Embryonic period?
Fetal period?
0-2 weeks; rapid cell division
2-8 weeks; organs develop
9 weeks-birth; At 22 weeks the fetus could potentially live outside of the womb
Describe a teratogen
Anything that could hurt prenatal development
What is synaptogenesis?
Synaptic pruning?
Myelination?
The development of synapsis
Getting rid of synapsis
A fatty insulation
What is the difference between assimilation and accommodation?
Assimilation is working with what one already knows, but accommodation is having to actually change
What/when are the four stages of development? Describe the sensorimotor stage and the 3 actions.
Sensorimotor; 0-2 yrs; infants learn how to coordinate actions and senses
Action 1: always involves the infants own body
Action 2: always involves an object
Action 3: the infant purposefully manipulates things to see what will happen
Pre operational; 2-7 yrs
Concrete operations; 7-11 yrs
Formal operations; 11-15 yrs
What is synchrony?
An even, coordinated exchange of responses between an infant and caregiver
What is prelinguistic communication?
An infants way of communicating though sounds, gestures, and facial expressions
What is attachment?
A positive emotional bond between an infant and caregiver
What are the three stages of attachment, or in other words, whom does the infant become attachment to first? second? third?
People in general, some people, caregiver
Describe the working (internal) working model
When an infant makes assumptions and sets expectations for others due to their own experiences in similar situations
What is social referencing?
When an infant isn’t sure how to react to something so it looks at its caregiver to see how they react
What is object permanence?
Understanding that objects still exist even if they cannot be seen
What is secure attachment?
Insecure-avoidant attachment?
Insecure-resistant/ambivalent attachment?
Disorganized attachment?
When an infant wants to be near its caregiver or it gets upset
When the infant could care less if its caregiver is present
When an infant gets upset when the caregiver isn’t around AND still avoids the caregiver when he/she is around
This is a lack of inconsistent reactions to the caregivers presence/departure and return
What does the Amygdala do?
Helps process emotions, especially fear and aggression
What does the developmental theory explain?
How/why people change
