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psychology chap 10
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| 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 |