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PSYC Chapter Ten
MTA PSYC 1011 Chapter Ten: Human Development
Term | Definition |
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Accommodation | The Piagetian process of altering a belief to make it more compatible with experience. |
Adolescence | The transition between childhood and adulthood associated with teenage years. |
Assimilation | The Piagetian process of absorbing new experience into current knowledge. |
Attachment | The strong emotional connection we share with people who are close to us. |
Average Expectable Environment | An environment that provides children with basic needs for affection and discipline. |
Blastocyst | Ball of identical cells early in pregnancy that haven't begun to take on any specific function. |
Cognitive Development | The study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember. |
Cohort Effect | The effect observed in a sample of participants that results from individuals in the sample growing up at the same time. |
Concrete Operations Stage | The stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability to perform mental operations on physical events only. |
Conservation | The Piagetian task requiring children to understand that a change in the presentation of an amount does not change the amount itself. |
Contact Comfort | Positive emotions from touch. |
Cross-Sectional Design | A research design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time. |
Developmental Psychology | The study of how behavior and mental processes change over the lifespan. |
Egocentrism | The inability to see the world from others' perspectives. |
Embryo | The second to eighth week of prenatal development, when limbs, facial features, and major organs take form. |
Emerging Adulthood | Period of life between the ages of 18 and 25 during which many aspects of emotional development, identity, and personality become solidified. |
Empty-Nest Syndrome | A period of depression in mothers following the departure of their grown children from home. |
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder | A condition resulting from high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure, causing learning disabilities, delays in physical growth, facial malformations, and behavioral disorders. |
Fetus | The period of prenatal development from ninth week until birth after all major organs are established and physical maturation is boosted. |
Formal Operations Stage | The stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now. |
Gender Identity | An individual's sense of being male or female. |
Gender Role | A set of behaviors that tend to be associated with being a man or a woman. |
Gene-Environment Interaction | A situation in which the effects of genes depend on the environment in which they are expressed. |
Gene Expression | The activation or deactivation of genes by environmental experiences throughout development. |
Identity | The sense of who we are, as well as our life goals and priorities. |
Longitudinal Design | A research design that examines development of the same group of people over long periods of time. |
Menarche | The start of menstruation. |
Menopause | The end of menstruation, marking the end of a female's reproductive potential. |
Midlife Crisis | A phase of adulthood characterized by emotional distress about aging and an attempt to regain youth. |
Mono-Operation Bias | Drawing conclusions off only one measure. |
Motor Behavior | Voluntary bodily movement of bones and muscles. |
Nature Via Nurture | The tendency of individuals with certain genetic predispositions to seek out and create environments that allow the expression of those dispositions. |
Object Permanence | Understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view. |
Pos Hoc Fallacy | The false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. |
Prenatal | Prior to birth. |
Preoperational Stage | The stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability to construct mental representations of experience but not yet perform operations on them. |
Primary Sex Characteristic | A physical feature such as the reproductive organs and genitals that distinguish the sexes. |
Psychosocial Crisis | Dilemmas concerning an individual's relations to other people. |
Puberty | Sexual maturation resulting in the potential to reproduce. |
Scaffolding | A Vygotskian learning mechanism in which parents provide initial assistance in children's learning but gradually remove structure as children become more competent. |
Secondary Sex Characteristic | A sex differentiating characteristic that doesn't relate directly to reproduction, such as breast enlargement in females and deepening voices in males. |
Sensorimotor Stage | The stage in Piaget's theory characterized by a focus on the here and now without the ability to represent experiences mentally. |
Spermarche | The first ejaculation by males. |
Stranger Anxiety | A fear of strangers that develops at 8 - 9 months of age. |
Temperament | One's basic emotional style that appears early in development and is largely genetic in origin. |
Teratogen | An environmental factor that can exert a negative impact on prenatal development. |
Theory Of Mind | The ability to reason about what other people know or believe. |
Zone of Proximal Development | A phase of learning during which children can benefit from instruction. |
Zygote | A fertilized egg. |
Attrition | When participants drop out of studies before they are completed. |
Infant Determinism | Is the widespread assumption that early experiences are always more influential than later experiences in shaping us as adults. |
Childhood Fragility | States that children are delicate and easily damaged. |
Germinal Stage | The first prenatal stage where a zygote begins to divide, becoming a blastocyst. |
Embryonic Stage | The second prenatal stage where limbs, facial features, and major organs begin to take shape. |
Fetal Stage | The third and final prenatal stage where the embryo becomes a fetus, and the heart begins to beat. |
Proliferation | Is when, between the 18th day of pregnancy and the end of the 6th month, neurons begin developing extremely quickly. |
Obstacles to Normal Fetal Development | Exposure to hazardous environmental influences, genetic disorders/errors in cell duplication, and premature birth. |
Viability Point | Is the point in pregnancy at which infants can typically survive on their own. (around 25 weeks) |
Sucking Reflex | An infant's automatic response to oral stimulation. |
Rooting Reflex | An infant's reflex to turn their head to seek feeding when you stroke their cheek. |
Stage-Like Changes in Understanding | Sudden spurts in knowledge followed by periods of stability. |
Continuous Changes in Understanding | Gradual and incremental acquisition of knowledge. |
Domain General Account of Development | Children develop cognitive skills that affect most or all areas of cognitive function at once. |
Domain Specific Account of Development | Children's cognitive skills develop independently and at different rates across different domains, |
Equilibration | The Piagetian idea of maintaining a balance between our experience of the world and our thoughts about it. |
Naive Physics | A set of infant beliefs of possessing basic understandings of how physical objects behave. |
Personal Fable | Teenagers' feelings of profound uniqueness. |
Easy Temperament | Is characterized as being adaptable and relaxed. (40%) |
Difficult Temperament | Is characterized as being fussy and easily frustrated. (10%) |
Slow to Warm Up Temperament | Is characterized as being disturbed by new stimuli at first by gradually adjusting to them. (15%) |
Behavioral Inhibition Temperament | Is characterized as being frightened very easily. (10%) |
Secure Attachment | The attachment style where children are upset when their caregiver is gone, and is happy when they return. (60%) |
Insecure-Avoidant Attachment | The attachment style where the infant shows little to no reaction when their caregiver leaves or comes back. (15-20%) |
Insecure-Anxious Attachment | The attachment style where the infant is in panic when their caregiver leaves, and shows a mixed reaction when they return. (15-20%) |
Disorganized Attachment | The attachment style where children react to their caregiver's departure and return with inconsistency and confusion. (5-10%) |
Permissive Parenting | This parenting style tends to be lenient with children, allowing freedom and not often using discipline. |
Authoritarian Parenting | This parenting style tends to be strict with children, allowing little to no opportunity for freedom and uses punishments. |
Authoritative Parenting | This parenting style balances discipline with freedom, parents are supportive but set clear and firm limits with children. |
Uninvolved Parenting | Neglectful parenting, pays little to no attention to positive or negative behaviors of their children. |
Group Socialization Theory of Development | States that environmental transmission is from child to child, not parent to child. |
Erikson's First Stage of Human Development: Infancy | Trust vs. mistrust, developing general security, optimism, and trust in others. |
Erikson's Second Stage of Human Development: Toddlerhood | Autonomy vs shame and doubt, developing a sense of independence and self-reliance. |
Erikson's Third Stage of Human Development: Early Childhood | Initiative vs guilt, developing initiative in exploring and manipulating the environment. |
Erikson's Fourth Stage of Human Development: Middle Childhood | Industry vs inferiority, enjoyment and mastery of the developmental tasks of childhood. |
Erikson's Fifth Stage of Human Development: Adolescence | Identity vs role confusion, achieving a stable and satisfying sense of role and direction. |
Erikson's Sixth Stage of Human Development: Young Adulthood | Intimacy vs isolation, developing the ability to maintain intimate personal relationships. |
Erikson's Seventh Stage of Human Development: Adulthood | Generativity vs stagnation, satisfaction of personal and familial needs. |
Erikson's Eighth Stage of Human Development: Aging | Ego integrity vs despair, recognizing and adjusting to aging and the prospect of death with a sense of satisfaction of the past. |
Objective Responsibility | How much someone has done. |
Subjective Responsibility | One's perceived intentions and potential. |
Preconventional Morality | The first stage in Kohlberg's theory, where there is a focus on punishment and reward. |
Conventional Morality | The second stage in Kohlberg's theory, where there is a focus on societal values. |
Postconventional Morality | The third and final stage in Kohlberg's theory, where there is a focus on internal moral principles that go beyond society. |
Biological Age | Is the estimate of a person's age in terms of biological functioning. |
Psychological Age | Is one's mental attitudes and agility, as well as the capacity to deal with the stresses of an ever-changing environment. |
Functional Age | Is one's ability to function in their given role in society. |
Social Age | Is how one behaves in accord with the social behaviors appropriate for their age. |