Unit 3 Flashcards
(54 cards)
In early development, certain factors must be present such as…
3 answers
- growth of the nervous system
- sensory abilities
- depth perception
What happens if you don’t learn something you’re supposed to by a certain age?
You never learn it
A life span is…
the biological limit of life
A life expentancy is…
the average length of time that a given age-based cohort is expected to live
A life course is…
expected set of events that take place over an individual’s life; determined by societal norms
Developmental change can be grouped into two categories, what are they?
- descriptive
- sequential
What is a cohort?
generations
What is time of measurment?
the historical period in which testing takes place
What are the three studies that are considered descriptive?
- cross-sectional
- longitudinal
- time lag
What is a time lag research design?
Individuals of an age at one time, then individuals who are the same age after time passed
What percentage of monozygotic twins are truly identical?
1%
What is a time sequential design?
Attempts to replicate the findings of one longitudinal study (page 4)
Jean Piaget defined intelligence as…
the ability to adapt to the enviroment through an equilibration process
What are the three fundamental concepts?
- schema
- assimilation
- acommodation
What is a schema?
A concept or category about the world
What is an assimilation?
tendency to interpret new experiences in terms of existing schemas
What is an accommodation?
Changing a schema to include info from new experiences
What are Piaget’s stages of development?
- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
What is the age range guideline for the sensorimotor stage of development?
birth to 18 months
The sensorimeter stage of development is where the child…
understands the world in actions and not words
age range of preoperational
definition of preoperational
age range of concrete operational
