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AP Psych Unit 6
Development
Question | Answer |
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Germinal Stage | beginning @ conception, the fertilized off drops down the fallopian tube.After cell division occurs and implantation begins. |
Embryonic Stage | begins 3rd week after conception; development of major structures; ends after the 8th week with basic brain structures and the CNS. |
Fetal Stage | 9th week-birth; by the end of the third month the fetus will have all of its body parts |
Teratogen | a harmful environmental factor during pregnancy EX: drug use or disease |
What are the impacts of maternal drug use? | low birth weight, neuro problems, <3 defects, body malformations, and weakened immune system |
Prenatal Care | prevents or lessens effect from possible teragons a mother may be exposed to. |
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | FAS; a group of health conditions associated with alcohol use during pregnancy. |
Easy Temperment | child is typically calm, adaptable, and has normal sleeping and eating habits |
Active Temperment | child is fussy, overreactive, fearful of new situations, and has irregular eating and sleeping habits |
Cautious | child is slow to warm up to new ppl and situations, may occasionally act fussy |
The Baby Lab | an experiment on babies, showed them nice and mean puppets -> most preferred nice puppet after watching |
Rooting Reflex | baby turns face toward a stimulus, makes sucking noise when cheek is touched |
Sucking Reflex | baby will suck when the root of their mouth is touched |
Grasping Reflex | babies grasp objects that touched their palm |
Moro Reflex | when startled, babies throw their heads back, extend their arms and legs in and out, and cry |
Babinski Reflex | when the sole of a baby's foot is touched toes curl towards stimulus |
Attachment Theory | the theory that humans need to form both emotional and physical relationships with their caregivers |
Harry Harlow | experimented on newborn monkeys, taking them away from their mothers and placing them with a terry cloth "monkey" to observe any abnormalities during development |
Authoritative Parenting | nurturing. responsive, and supportive, yet sets firm boundaries and rules |
Authoritarian Parenting | extremely strict; places high expectations on the child with little communication |
Permissive Parenting | ow demands with high responsiveness; tend to be very loving, yet provide few guidelines and rules |
Negligent/Non-Parenting | unresponsive to their child's needs or desires beyond the basics of food, clothing, and shelter if that |
ASD | Autism spectrum disorder; |
What are some treatments for ASD? | Medication, social skills training speech therapy, special ed programs |
Sensorimotor Stage | Birth-2 yrs; experiment the world through 5 senses and action -->Object permanence + stranger anxiety |
Preoperational Stage | 2-7 yrs: represent things with words and images; intuition over logic --> Pretend play + egocentrism |
Concrete Operational Stage | 7-11 yrs; thinking logically about concrete events; understanding analogies and math |
Formal Operational Stage | 12 yrs-adult; abstract reasoning and moral decision-making |
Preconventional Moral Reasoning | Birth-9 yrs; moral values reside in a person's own needs and wants; fear of punishment promote obedience |
Conventional Moral Reasoning | Early adolescence; moral value resides in performing good or right roles, in maintaining the conventional order, and in pleasing others; hopes to get along promotes obedience |
Postconventional Moral Reasoning | Late adolescence-adulthood; moral value resides in principles, occasionally puts rules aside to pursue higher principles |
Identity Diffusion | the status in which the adolescent doesn't have a sense of choices; they have yet to make a commitment; possible identity crisis |
Identity Foreclosure | the status in which the adolescent seems willing to make future choices; they have NOT had an identity crisis; tend to conform to other expectations |
Identity Moratorium | the status in which an adolescent is in an identity crisis and actively exploring commitments yet to decide |
Identity Achievement | the status in which an adolescent has gone through an identity crisis and has made a commitment to a sense of identity |