Final Exam Flashcards
(48 cards)
What does the science of human develop seek to understand
How and why people change over time
Dr. Whittier is curious to know more about how children develop over time. To gain an understand of this subject without an opinion or personal bias
Use scientific method to collect data and establish
Nature refers to
The genes people in herit
The term for all the environmental influences that affect development after conception is
Nurture
What is epigenetics
The study of how the environment effects which genes are expressed
The human fetus develops fingers and toes between 28 and 54 days after conception but can not develop them after that time. This is an example of
Critical period
The health habits that children develop during the middle childhood years
Related to their health in adolescenes and adulthood
What allows children to master the ability to read?
Massive interconnections in the brain
New concepts are best learned when they are connected to
What is already known about a subject
The children who weathers severe family problems, even abuse, and yet emerges from the experiences unscathed is said to be
Resilient
Preconventional morality involves
Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain
Which factor contributes to the decline in neighborhood play among children?
A scarcity of vacant lots and empty fields
The capacity of organs to allow the body to cope with stress via extra, unused
Organ reserve
Research has found that cohabitation prior to marriage
Increases the likelihood of divorce
George who is 60 couldn’t understand why he was slowly gaining weight
His metabolism had slowed down
Which individual is most at risk for significant brain loss by age 65
Hank, 5 beers a day
According to stern with, intelligence used in everyday problem serving considered to be
PRACTICAL intelligence
Rosa needs surgery l. Ask what question
How often to you perform this operation?
With increasing age, the trait of neuroticism
Modifies
A long term committed partnership correlated between health and happiness
Commitment
3 causes of childhood obesity
1) over eating
2) lack of physical activity
3) genetics but also not having healthy habits
4) increased sugary foods
Research indicates that alcoholism may be caused by
A combo of nature and nurture
When is the best age to teach some a new language?
Before 7
An abusive caregiver shakes an infant to get her to stop crying. The infants STOP but why
Blood vessels in her brain rupture and neural connections break
