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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is the scientific study of the changes that occure in people as they age from conception until death. | Human Development |
| in which one group of people is followed and assessed at different times as the group ages. | Logitudinal design |
| in which differnent age groups are are studied at one time. | cross sectional design |
| is a combination of longitudinal and cross-sectional design. | cross sequential design |
| the tendency for the brain to stop paying attention to unchanging information. | Habitation |
| refers to heredity, the influence of inherited characteristics on personality growth and social interactions | Nature |
| refers to the influence of the environment on all of those same things and includes parenting styles. | Nurture |
| Rod shapted structure where genes are located | Chromozone |
| Each section of DNA that contains certain sequence of thes amines is called a | Gene |
| Deozyribonenucleic Acid | DNA |
| How many chromozones does a human have? | 46 |
| refering to a gene that actively controls the expression of a trait. | Dominant |
| refferring to a gent that onl invluence the expression of a trait when paired with an identical gene | Recessive |
| the science of inherited traits | Genentics |
| Sickle Cell, cystic fibrosis, Phenylketonuria are examples of what. | Recessive gene inherited diseases. |
| a distorder in which there is an extra chromosome in what would normal be the twenty-first pair. | Down Syndrome |
| an extra sex chromosone the 23 pair | Klinefelters Snydrome |
| Very short females, infertile, and sexually underdeveloped. | Turner's Syndrome |
| Once egg is fertilized until it moves down to and attaches to the uterus, and the placenta forms. | Germinal period |
| Starts at 2 weeks once firmly attached to the uterus | Embryonic Period |
| Prenatal Environmental Hazards | Teratogens |
| times during which certain environmental influences can have an impact on the development of the infant. | Critical periods |
| from about 8 weeks after conception to birth | Fetal period |
| The most likely time for a misscariage | first 3 months. |
| The division process from 2,4,8,16 | mitosis |
| Another name for an unfertilized egg | Ovum |
| A fertilized eggs | Zygote |
| monozygotic twins comes from 1 egg. | Identical Twins |
| twins from two eggs | Dizygotic twins or fraternal twins |
| when in the twinning process does to completely split | conjoined twins |
| Physical Development, cognitive development, moral development, Psychosocial Development | What are the Four Developmental Domains |
| sucking, rooting, Moro (startle), grasping, and Babinski | Born with reflexes |
| Moro Reflex | Startle Reflex |
| Stimulation of the sole infant extends the big toe. | The Babinski Effect |
| (a) Raising head (b) Rolling over (c) Propped Up – not pictured on slide (d) Sitting up (e) Crawling (f) Walking. | 6 motor milestones |
| maintained that children are not just “little adults” but instead think quite differently about the world | Jean Piaget |
| a mental concept formed through experiences with objects and events | Scheme |
| applying old schemes to new information | Assimilation |
| changing old schemes to fit new information | Accomodation |
| Children explore the world using their senses and ability to move. Birth to 2 years old They develop object permanence and the understanding that concepts and mental images represent objects, people, and events. | Sensorimotor |
| Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development in which the preschool child learns to use language as a means of exploring the world | Preoperational |
| the inability to see the world through anyone else’s eyes | Egocentrism |
| in Piaget’s theory, the tendency of a young child to focus only on one feature of an object while ignoring other relevant features | Centration |
| in Piaget’s theory, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object’s nature | conservation |
| in Piaget’s theory, the inability of the young child to mentally reverse an action | Irreversibility |
| Children at this stage are able to conserve, reverse their thinking,7 to 12 years old and classify objects in terms of their many characteristics. | Concrete Operational |
| They can also think logically and understand analogies but only about concrete events. | Concrete Operational |
| People at this stage can use abstract reasoning about hypothetical 12 years old to events or situations, think about logical possibilities, use abstract adulthood analogies, and systematically examine and test hypotheses | Formal Operational |
| type of thought common to adolescents in which young people believe themselves to be unique and protected from harm | Personal Fable |
| type of thought common to adolescents in which young people believe that other people are just as concerned about the adolescent’s thoughts and characteristics as they themselves are. | Imaginary audience |
| believed that children learn best when being helped by a more skilled peer or adult in a process called scaffolding | Vygotsky |
| The more highly skilled person gives the learner more help at the beginning of the learning process and then begins to withdraw help as the learner’s skills improve beyond her zones of proximal development. | Scaffolding |
| is the difference between the mental age of tasks the child performs without help and those the child can perform with help. | zone of proximal development |
| states that children improve in the capacity of memory as they age, learn to use control strategies to improve memory performance, and gain a better understanding of how their own memories work in a process called metamemory. . | Imformation Process Theory |
| At around 2 months of age, babies begin to make vowel-like sounds | Cooing |
| At about 6 months, infants add consonant sounds to the vowels to make a babbling sound, which at times can almost sound like real speech | Babbling |
| Somewhere just before or around age 1, most children begin to say actual words. These words are typically nouns and may seem to represent an entire phrase of meaning. | One word speech |
| (whole phrases in one word) for that reason | holophrase |
| At around a year and a half, toddlers begin to string words together to form short, simple sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. “Baby eat,” “Mommy go,” “Doggie go bye-bye” are examples of telegraphic speech. Only the words that carry the meaning | Telegraphic Speech |
| As children move through the preschool years, they learn to use grammatical terms and increase the number of words in their sentences, until by age 6 or so they are nearly as fluent as an adult, although the number of words they know is still limited whe | Whole sentences |
| easy (regular, adaptable, and happy), difficult (irregular, non-adaptable, and irritable), and slow-to-warm-up (need to adjust gradually to change). | 3 basic infant temperants |
| the emotional bond between an infant and the primary caregiver | Attachment |
| willing to explore, upset when mother departs but easily soothed upon her return. | Secure |
| unattached; explore without “touching base.” | Avoidant |
| insecurely attached; upset when mother leaves and then angry with mother upon her return. | Abivalent |
| insecurely attached and sometimes abused or neglected; seemed fearful, dazed, and depressed | Disorganized-disoriented |
| demonstrated the importance of contact comfort in the attachment process, contradicting the earlier view that attachment was merely a function of associating the mother with the delivery of food . | Harlow and Contact Comfort |
| Amy is 5 years old and entering kindergarten. According to Erikson, her main task is to develop a sense of | Initiative |
| A nervous college freshman is tempted to cheat on a final examination. At the crucial moment, she decides against it and doesn't pull out the notes she had hidden in her sleeve. Assuming she is operating at Kohlberg's postconventional level of morality, w | "It is immoral to cheat |
| A time when adults discover they no longer feel fulfilled in their jobs or personal lives and attempt to make a decisive shift in career or lifestyle is called | Midlife Crisis |
| denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance | Stages of Death |
| is based on the idea that cells only have so many times that they can reproduce, and once that limit is reached, damaged cells begin to accumulate. | Cellular Clock Theory |
| states that as time goes by, repeated use and abuse of the body’s tissues causes it to be unable to repair all the damage | Wear and Tear Theory |
| oxygen molecules with an unstable electron move around the cell, damaging cell structures as they go. | free radical theory states |
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