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lesson 9 Flashcards

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Developmental psychology

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Study of continuity and change across the lifespan

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Germinal stage

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2‐week period that begins at conception

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Zygote

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Fertilized egg that contains chromosomes from both a sperm and an egg

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Embryonic stage

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Period that lasts from the 2nd week until about the 8th week

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Fetal stage

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Period that lasts from the 9th week until birth

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Myelination

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Formation of a fatty sheath around the axons of a neuron

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womb

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an environment that affects an unborn baby in many ways.

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placenta

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the organ that links the blood streams of the mother to the unborn baby that permits the exchange of materials.

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Teratogens

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Agents that damage the process of development, such as drugs and viruses

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

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Developmental disorder that stems from heavy alcohol use by the mother during pregnancy

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Infancy

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Stage of development that begins at birth and lasts between 18 and 24 months

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Cephalocaudal rule

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‘Top‐to‐bottom’ rule that describes the tendency for motor skills to emerge in sequence from the head to the feet

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Proximodistal rule

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‘Inside‐to‐outside’ rule that describes the tendency for motor skills to emerge in sequence from the center to the periphery

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Cognitive development

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Emergence of the ability to think and understand

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Jean Piaget

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(1896‐1980) created stages of cognitive development.

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Sensorimotor stage (birth‐2 years)

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Infants acquire information about the world by sensing it and moving around within it

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Schemas

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Theories about or models of the way the world works

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Assimilation

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Process by which infants apply their schemas in novel

situations

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Accommodation

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The process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information

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Object permanence

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Idea that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible

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Preoperational stage (2‐6years)

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Children have a preliminary understanding of the physical world

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Concrete operational stage (6‐11years)

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Children learn how various actions or operations can affect or transform concrete objects

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Conservation

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Notion that the quantitative properties of an object are invariant despite changes in the object’s appearance

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Formal operational stage (11years+)

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Children can solve non‐ physical problems; abstract thinking

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Childhood

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Stage of development that begins at about 18‐24 months and lasts until adolescence

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Egocentrism

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Failure to understand that the world appears differently to different observers; observed during preoperational stage

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Theory of mind

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Idea that human behaviour is guided by mental representations

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Lev Vygotsky

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(1896‐1934) believed children develop through interactions with members of his/her own culture.

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Joint attention

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Ability to focus on what another person is focused on

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Social referencing

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Ability to use another person’s reactions as information about the world

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Imitation

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Ability to do what another person does

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Harry Harlow

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(1905‐1981) conducted attachment experiments with baby monkeys.

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Konrad Lorenz

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(1903‐1989) discovered imprinting in newly hatched goslings.

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John Bowlby

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(1907‐1990) argued that infants innately channel signals to primary caregivers to form attachment.

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Attachment

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Emotional bond that forms between new borns and their primary caregivers

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Strange situation

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Behavioural test developed by Mary Ainsworth that is used to determine a child’s attachment style

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Internal working model of relationships

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Set of beliefs about the self, the primary caregiver, and the relationship between them

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Temperaments

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Characteristic patterns of emotional reactivity.

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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(1927‐1987) developed a theory of three stages in moral development

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Preconventional stage (childhood)

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Morality of an action is primarily determined by its consequences for the actor

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Conventional stage (adolescence)

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Morality of an action is primarily determined by the extent to which it conforms to social rules

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Postconventional stage (adults)

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Morality of an action is determined by a set of general principles that reflect core values

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Moral intuitionist perspective

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Perceptions of right and wrong are evolutionarily emotional reactions

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Adolescence

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Period of development that begins with the onset of sexual maturity (about 11‐14 years of age) and lasts until the beginning of adulthood (about 18‐21 years of age)

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Puberty

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Bodily changes associated with sexual maturity

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Primary sex characteristics

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Bodily structures that are directly involved in

reproduction

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Bodily structures that change dramatically with sexual maturity but that are not directly involved in reproduction

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Erik Erikson

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(1902‐1994) developed stages of human development

that all humans go through.

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Adulthood

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Stage of development that begins around 18 to 21 years and ends at death.

50
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socio‐emotional selectivity theory

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states that younger adults are oriented toward future‐pertinent (useful) information while older adults focus on (positive) emotional satisfaction in the present, perhaps because of shortened futures.

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