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Bi-directional view of Evolutionism

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Environmental and biological conditions influence each other.

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Natural Selection focus

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Emphasizes adaptation, reproduction, and survival of the fittest in shaping behavior

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Mitosis

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Cell nucleus duplicates. Humans have 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs. During mitosis, the cell’s nucleus duplicates itself and the cell divides. The resulting cell is a clone.

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Types of Genotype-environment correlations

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Passive, evocative, active (niche-picking)

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Epigenetic view of development

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Bi-directional interchange of heredity/environment

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teratogens

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agents causing birth defects. caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, blood types, diseases, diet, stress

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Apgar Scale test

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heart, breathing, muscle, color, reflex

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Brain regions and their general functions

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Frontal: movement, thinking, personality, emotion, memory, attention. Occipital: vision. Temporal: hearing, language, memory. Parietal: spatial location, attention, motor control

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Define lateralization

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Specialization of functions in one hemisphere of cerebral cortex.

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What is meant by “blooming & pruning”

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Infancy, increased dendrites and synapses. Those that get used strengthen, those that aren’t are “pruned”

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Know some of the side effects to poor diet

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Obesity: medical, pulmonary, diabetes. self-esteem, depression, exclusion by peers.

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Infant reflexes are important because…..

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Allows newborns to respond adaptively before they have had a chance to learn.

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Define rooting reflex

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When cheek is stroked, infant turns to where touched and begins to suck.

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Define Gross Motor Skills/Fine Motor Skills

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Gross: large muscle activites. Fine: finger dexterity, reaching, grasping. Palmar, pincer grasp.

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Define sensation

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Information as stimuli processed by sensory receptors

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Define Assimilation

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Children use existing schemas to incorporate new information. All moving vehicles are cares.

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Know Piaget’s cognitive developmental stages

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Cog stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

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Define Object Permanence

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the understanding that objects continue to exist when they cannot be seen, heard or touched

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Define egocentricism

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The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective

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Define conservation in regards to Piaget’s theory

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The awareness that altering an object or a substance’s appearances does not change its basic properties (volume of glass regardless of height)

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Vygotsky’s theory focused on & differs from Piaget in what ways

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Piaget, little emphasis on sociocultural context, cognitive constructivist, strong stages, language not significant.

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Define scaffolding

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Changing the level of support over a teaching session to fit the guidance with the child.

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Define zone of proximal development

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The range of tasks that are too difficult for the child to master alone, but that can be learned with guidance from adults or more skilled peers.

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Define postformal thought

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Thinking that is reflective, realistic, and contextual, provisional (more skeptical about truth), realistic and influenced by emotions.

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Know the process of Information Processing
Stimulus, attention, encoding, memory, thinking, response. Manipulate, monitor, create strategies.
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Define meta-cognition
Knowing about knowing.
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Define the different kinds of attention (e.g., selective)
selective,divided,sustained, executive
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What are the three processes required for memory
Encoding, storage, retrieval
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Define schema theory
People construct and reconstruct memories, and mold memories to fit information that already exists in their minds, filling in gaps in memory.
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Define infantile amnesia
We can't remember the first three years of life, because of the immaturity of the prefrontal lobe.
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Define working memory
Mental workbench for manipulating and assembling information, more active and powerful than short term. Makes decisions, solves problems, comprehends language.
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Define reminiscence bump
Adults remember many more events from the second and third decades of their lives
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Know the different kinds of memory
implicit (skills/routine), explicit (episodic versus semantic), source (where) , prospective
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Define thinking
Manipulating and transforming information in memory.
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Define intelligence
Ability to solve problems, adapt to and learn from everyday experience.
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IQ scores should be cautioned - why?
Predictor of school success, not necessarily work success. Can lead to false expectations, generalizations, self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Know Sternberg’s theory of intelligence
Triarchic: analytic, creative, practical intelligence
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Know the different kinds of intelligence (e.g., Specific intelligence)
verbal,math, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, body, music, nature, existential, emotional
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Define Flynn effect
IQ scores going up worldwite
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Define fluid intelligence
crystalized versus fluid
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What is considered a gifted/mildly retarded IQ
55-70 retarded. 130+ gifted
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Define creativity
ability to think in novel.useful ways, and come up with good solutions. divergent thinking
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Define language
form of communication whether spoken, written or signed, based on system of symbols
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Define morphology
words are formed based on meaning and units of meaning (morphemes)
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Know how language develops through the life span
infants babble, begin recognizing. First words at 13 mo, then a spirt. 2 years=200 words. Complex sentences 2-3, all vowel sounds. 4-5 change speech style at will. 6-11, 14000 to 40000 words
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Define emotion
feeling or affect that occurs when a person is in a state of interaction that is important to him or her, especially well-being.
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Define arousal as it relates to emotion
A state of alertness or activation which can reach levels too high for executive fxn
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What is regulation of emotion
Effectively managing arousal to adapt and reach a goal.
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Define emotional coaching
Monitor child emotions, help child label and coach on how to process. Negative is opportunity.
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Know what socioemotional selectivity theory is
Older adults become more selective abt social networks. Withdraw from outliers and enjoy close and deep relationships with a few close friends.
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Define personality
An individual's personal characteristics, encompassing self and identity.
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Define self
All characteristics of a person -- the central aspects of a personality
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Define self-awareness
Awareness of strengths and weaknesses
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Define self-regulation
Ability to control one's behavior without having to rely on others for help.
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Know identity stagnation in relation to Marcia theory
diffused, moratorium or foreclosure, achieved.
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Know the big five factors of personality
OCEAN Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroiticism
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Define gender
Characteristics of being female or male
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Know social cognitive theory of gender
G development results from observation and imitation, rewards and punishments for gender-appropriate behavior
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Difference between report and rapport talk
Relationship versus information
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Define sexual harassment
Sexual persecutions that can take many forms, using power over another
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Define moral development
Changes in thoughts, feelijngs, and behaviors regarding standards of right and wrong.
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Know the different types of morality (e.g., autonomous morality)
Piaget (Heteronomous=unchangeable properties, Autonomous=judge intent too). Kohlberg: Pre-conventional->conventional->post-conventional
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What is the care perspective on moral behavior
Viewing people in terms of connectedness with others, communication, relation and concern
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What are moral rules
Obligatory, widely accepted, somewhat impersonal ethical standards that exist apart from convention
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Know Bronfernbrenner terms in relation to family processes (e.g., microsystem)
Micro/meso/exo/macro/chrono
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Know Baumrind’s parenting styles (e.g., authoritarian)
Authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, indulgent
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Know Kubler-Ross stages of grief
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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How can denial be a positive response to death
Can avoid/insulate dealign with intense feelings of anger, hurt and shock.
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Piaget's sensorimotor substages
Simple reflexes, primary circular reactions, 2nd circulary reactions, coordination of secondary, tertiary, internalization, 4mo intervals

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