UNIT 6 Flashcards
What is Stage 1 of the Prenatal Development? What is the timing?
The Zygote - Lasts about 2 weeks
- Less than half of all Zygotes survive first 2 weeks
- About 10 days after conception, the Zygote will attach itself to the uterine wall
What is Stage 2 of the Prenatal Development? What is the timing?
The Embryo - Lasts 6 weeks
- Happens 2 weeks after the Zygote
- Heart begins to beat and the organs begin to develop
What is Stage 3 of the Prenatal Development? What is the timing?
The Fetus
- Happens 9 weeks after the Embryo stage
- By about the 6th month, the stomach and organs have developed enough to survive outside of the mother
- The baby can hear and recognize sounds and respond to light
What stage is when a baby’s heart will begin to beat?
The Embryo Stage (2nd Stage)
What is Teratogen?
Harmful agents to the Prenatal environment.
Could be nutrition, illness, or substance abuse.
What does it mean when a newborn has a “rooting reflex?”
A baby’s tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open mouth and search for food.
What are two things a Newborn does?
- Turn towards human voices
- Gaze longer at human face like images
What is Maturation?
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
What did Piaget think about children?
They are active thinkers and are always trying to make sense of the world. To make sense of the world, they develop schemas.
What is a Schema?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is Assimilation?
Interpreting one’s new experiences into one’s existing
NO CHANGE IN SCHEMA
What is Accommodation?
Adapting one’s current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.
What is Object Permanence?
We are able to “see” objects even when they are out of sight.
What is Egocentrism?
The inability to take on another’s point of view.
IN THE PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
What is Conservation?
The ability to know that physical properties, like mass and volume, are the same even if the object is in a different form.
CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE
What is Reversibility?
Thinking logically, using analogies, and performing mathematical transformations.
EX: 5+9 is the same as 9+5
What is Sensorimotor?
A stage in development in which babies take in the world by looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping.
OBJECT PERMANENCE
What is Preoperational?
A stage in development between the ages of 2 and 6 when a child learns to use language.
At the end of the stage, you can understand conservation.
What is Concrete Operational?
A stage in development between 7-11 years old in which you can understand the concept of conservation and can think logically, use analogies and perform mathematical transformations.
What is Formal Operational?
A stage in development in which we can reason abstractly.
11-12 years old
What is the Theory of Mind?
A person’s general understanding that the people around them each have their own unique beliefs, perceptions, and desires.
What is Vygotsky’s Theory of Cognitive Development?
- We develop by internalizing our cultures language and relying on inner speech
- Emphasized how our minds grow through social interaction
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The Zone between what a child can and cannot do.
What did Harry Harlow’s experiment with Monkeys prove?
The fact that the monkeys grew the most attached to the cloth mother, who satisfied no physical needs of the monkeys, showed that love and comfort were non-physical needs.
