Modules 45-54

Question 1

Zygote

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Embryo

Answer 2

The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization throughout the second month

Question 3

Fetus

Answer 3

The developing human organism from 9weeks after conception to birth

Question 4

Teratogens

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Answer 5

Physical and cognitive abnomalities in children caused by a pregnant woman heavy drinking

Question 6

Habituation

Answer 6

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus their interest wanes and they look away sooner

Question 7

Maturation

Answer 7

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior relatively uninfluenced by experience

Question 8

Cognition

Answer 8

All the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating

Question 9

Schema

Answer 9

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Question 10

Assumilation

Answer 10

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

Question 11

Accommodation

Answer 11

Adapting our current understanding to incorporate new information

Question 12

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 12

Piaget’s theory stage, during which infants lmle the world misty in terms of their sensory impressions and motor acttivies

Question 13

Object permanence

Answer 13

The awarness thag things continue to exist even when not percieved

Question 14

Pre operational stage

Answer 14

Piagets theory during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

Question 15

Conservation

Answer 15

Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning that properties such as mass and volume and number remain the same despite change

Question 16

Egocentrism

Answer 16

In Piaget’s theory the preoperational Childs difficulty taking another pov

Question 17

Theory of mind

Answer 17

Peoples idea about their own and other mental states about their feelings perception and thoughts and the behaviors these might predict

Question 18

Concrete operational stage

Answer 18

Piagets theory 7-11 during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Question 19

Formal operational theory

Answer 19

Piagets theory 12 to adult hood during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

Question 20

Stranger anxiety

Answer 20

The fear that infants have at 8 months

Question 21

Critical period

Answer 21

Optimal period early in life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli of experiences produce normal development

Question 22

Imprinting

Answer 22

The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early life critical period

Question 23

Self concept

Answer 23

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question who am I

Question 24

Social learning theory

Answer 24

The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

Question 25

Adolescence

Answer 25

The tranisiton period from childhood to adulthood extending from puberty to independence

Question 26

Social identity

Answer 26

The we aspect of our self concept the part of our Answer to who am I that comes from our group memberships

Question 27

Intimacy

Answer 27

Eriksons ability to form close loving relationships

Question 28

X chromosomes

Answer 28

In both sexs 1 in males 2 in women

Question 29

Y chromosomes

Answer 29

Only in males

Question 30

Testosterone

Answer 30

Important of sex hormones both males and females (mostly male) addition in males stimulated the growth of the male sex organs

Question 31

Menarche

Answer 31

The first menstrual period

Question 32

Menopause

Answer 32

The time of natural cessation of menstruation also refers to biological changes a woman experienced as her ability to reproduce declines

Question 33

Cross sectional study

Answer 33

A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

Question 34

Longitudinal study

Answer 34

Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

Question 35

Developmental psychology

Answer 35

Branch of psychology that studies physical cognitive and social change throughout the life span