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psychology chap 10
Front | Back |
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Reactive | Genetically infuluenced traits that evoke resonses from other |
Active | seek out environment that match your genes |
Passive | biological parents shape childs environment |
norms | rules for accepted and excepted behavior |
Developmental Psychology | study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life |
Teratigens | anything that harms prenatal environment |
rooting reflex | touch cheek, open mouth, suck |
Schemas | mental framework to organize information |
Assimilate | add informaion into an existing schema |
accomodate | adjust a schema to fit new information |
senorimotor | 0-2 learn through senses, object permencance, stranger anxiety |
preoperational | 2-6 symbolic thought, but not logic, egocentrism, centration (1 aspect) and irreversibility |
Concrete operational | 7-11 think logically about concrete ideas -conservation |
formal operation | 12-? abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking |
attachment | emotional tie to another person |
authoritarian | rules and obedience |
permissive | few demands or punishment |
Authoritative | demanding and responsive |
Kholberg's 3 stages | preconventional, conventional, post conventional |
preconventional | gain rewards and avoiding punishment |
conventional | care for others, uphold laws of society |
post conventional | believe in abstract ethical principle |
Adolescence | period between childhood and adulthood (puberty to independence) |
puberty | sexual maturation |
Erik Erikson | key challenge- form a sense of Identity |
james Marcia | 4 identity statuses |
4 identity statuses | foreclosure, moratorium, identity diffusion, and identity achievement |
Intimacy | more important to women, interdependent vs independent, women make better friends |
Middle adulthood | physical abilites decline |
menopause | end of menstral cycle |
mid adulthood-men | sperm count and testosterone decline |
late adulthood | decline in sensory abilities, less short term ailments, more long term ailments |
adult brains | neural processing speed slows, by 80 the brain weighs 5% less, neural connections can still form |
Adult memory | ability to recall decines, ability to recognize is constant, better memory in morning, meaningful information is remembered better |
Adult social develoment | midlife crisis, social clock- the right time for events, goal: love and work |
Death and dying | loss of spouse, confronting you own death |