Module 11, 13-14

Question 1

A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes

Answer 1

DNA

Question 2

The principle (which Piaget believed to be part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

Answer 2

Conservation

Question 3

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Answer 3

Schema

Question 4

An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.

Answer 4

Attachment

Question 5

The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.

Answer 5

Zygote

Question 6

According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world would predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences.

Answer 6

Basic trust

Question 7

The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

Answer 7

Object permanence

Question 8

A person’s characteristics emotional reactivity and intensity.

Answer 8

Temperament

Question 9

The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.

Answer 9

Imprinting

Question 10

Agents such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

Answer 10

Teratogens

Question 11

People’s ideas about their own and thoughts and the behaviors these might predict

Answer 11

Theory of mind

Question 12

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, “who am I?”

Answer 12

Self-concept

Question 13

A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others’ states of mind.

Answer 13

Autism

Question 14

Biological growth process that enables orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

Answer 14

Maturation

Question 15

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions.

Answer 15

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 16

What happens during conception?

Answer 16

Penetration has to happen and a healthy sperm has to meet an ovulated egg in order to conceive a baby.

Question 17

What is a zygote and what happens with it?

Answer 17

It is the fertilized cell. After the nuclei of the egg and sperm fuse, the cell divides in 2,4,16,100,1000
Milestone of the zygote stage: cell begin to differentiate into specialized locations and structure

Question 18

What are the characteristic of an embryo?

Answer 18

Some characteristic include it being the earliest stage of development right often implantation. Considered to be between the fifth and the eleventh week after fertilization and is expressed as fetus form the twelfth week.

Question 19

What are some characteristics about how the fetus?

Answer 19

It happens at nine weeks where the hands and face have developed.The embryo now turn into the term fetus (offspring) the milestone is by 6 months. (9 weeks to birth)

Question 20

What some inborn skills babies have?

Answer 20

Sucking, tonguing, swallowing, and breathing.

Question 21

What is cognitive development?

Answer 21

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing remembering and communicating.

Question 22

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Answer 22

Schema

Question 23

Explain the inability to understand scale.

Answer 23

When a child is young they may fail to take the size of an object into consideration when trying to perform impossible actions.

Question 24

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

Answer 24

Assimilation

Question 25

Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

Answer 25

Accommodation

Question 26

Around what age and what happens during formal operation?

Answer 26

It happens around the ages of 12 through adult. We have more abstract reasoning and we develop abstract logic along with potential for more mature reasoning.

Question 27

Around what age and what happens during concrete operational development?

Answer 27

It happens about 7-11 years old where they think about concrete events as well as performing arithmetical problems

Question 28

What are the three hypothetical parenting styles?

Answer 28

Too hard, too soft, and just right. Too hard is when the parent is to strict with the child and creates all these boundaries. Too soft is when the parent obliges to the child's needs no matter how useless the 'need' is. Just right days it all it perfect the right balance between the two parents.

Question 29

Describe the stranger anxiety concept.

Answer 29

Stranger anxiety develops around the age of 9 to 13 months where they notice change and fear new people. This happens as they develop primary schemas of who the primary people in their lives are.