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Lecture 5 - Developing Through Lifespans (Pt. 2) Flashcards

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What is the major task of infancy?

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Forming healthy attachments

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What is the major task of childhood?

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Forming a healthy self-concept

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What is an authoritarian parenting style?

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Parents impose rules because “I said so” and expect obedience

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What is a permissive parenting style?

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Parents submit to child’s desires, not enforcing limits or standards for behavior

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What is an authoritative parenting style?

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Parents enforce rules, limits, and standards, but also explain, listen, and express respect for child’s ideas and wishes

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What is the lifespan perspective?

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Development is a lifelong process

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What is adolescence?

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A transition period from childhood to adulthood

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What is puberty?

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Time of sexual maturation

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What is an early sign of puberty?

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Height change

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How does the brain develop during puberty?

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The brain stops automatically adding new connections and increases efficiency by “rewiring”

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How is nerve conduction sped up during puberty?

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Well-used connections are coated in myelin

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What part of the brain is last to rewire?

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The frontal lobe

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What do adolescents prioritize?

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They understand risk and consequences but give more weight to potential thrills and rewards

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What did Piaget claim about adolescents?

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He said they were in the formal operational stage

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What is preconventional morality?

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When you follow the rules because if you don’t, you’ll get in trouble and if you do, you’ll be rewarded

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What is conventional morality?

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When you follow the rules because everyone gets along if everyone does the right thing

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What is post-conventional morality?

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When you recognize the rules sometimes need to be set aside to pursue higher principles

18
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What is moral intuition?

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Quick, gut-feeling decisions

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What is moral intuition based on?

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Moral reasoning and emotions

20
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What did Erik Erikson believe about adolescents?

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They are struggling to form an identity to prevent role confusion

21
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What does psychosocial development revolve around during infancy?

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Trust vs. mistrust

22
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What does psychosocial development revolve around during toddlerhood?

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Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

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What does psychosocial development revolve around during preschool?

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Initiative vs. guilt

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What does psychosocial development revolve around during elementary school?

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Competence vs. inferiority

25
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What does psychosocial development revolve around during adolescence?

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Identity vs. role confusion

26
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What does psychosocial development revolve around during young adulthood?

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Intimacy vs. isolation

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What does psychosocial development revolve around during middle adulthood?

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Generativity vs. stagnation

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What does psychosocial development revolve around during late adulthood?

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Integrity vs. despair

29
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What happens to physical development at mid-20’s?

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Reach peak which comes with biological maturation

30
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What happens to physical development at middle adulthood?

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Physical vitality is still more a function of lifestyle rather than biological decline

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What happens to physical development at the end of reproductive years?

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Gradual decline in sexual activity and enter menopause around age 50

32
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What is a human’s potential lifespan?

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About 122 years

33
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What happens to telomeres (tips of chromosomes) as we age?

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They wear down with every generation of cell duplication and we stop hearing well

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What is the death-deferral phenomenon?

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People are able to stay alive for special events and gatherings before they pass

35
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What happens to memory as we age?

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The regions of the brain related to memory begin to shrink, making it harder to form new ones

36
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What is the POPFID model?

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Parent Orientation and Parent Fixation In Dementia

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What happens to the brain during dementia?

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There is a loss of brain cells and neural connections, with a deterioration of neurons that produce acetylcholine (memory transmitter) and shriveled protein filaments forming plaques at tips of neurons

38
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What are cross-sectional studies?

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Comparing people at different ages all at once

39
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What are longitudinal studies?

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Comparing attributes of same people as they age over time

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