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PSYC King Chapter 4
Human Development
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Development | The pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout the course of life |
| Nature | An organism's biological inheritance |
| Nurture | An organism's environmental experiences |
| Preferential Looking | A test of perception that involves giving an infant a choice of an object to look at and that is used to determined whether infants can distinguish between objects. |
| Habituation | Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentation. Habituation is used in infant research to examine if an infant can discriminate between an old stimulus and a new one. |
| Schema | A concept or framework that already exists at a given moment in a person's mind and that organizes info and provides a structure for interpreting it. |
| Assimilation | An individual's incorporation of new info into existing knowledge |
| Accommodation | An individual's adjustment of a schema to new info |
| Sensorimotor Stage | 1st of Piaget's stages of cognitive development (birth - 2 years. Infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor. |
| Preoperational Stage | 2nd of Piaget's cognitive development (2-7 years) in which thought becomes more symbolic but not yet to perform operations. |
| Concrete Operational Stage | 3rd stage of Piaget's CD (7-11 years) in which thought becomes operational and intuitive reasoning is replaced by logical reasoning in concrete situations. |
| Formal Operational Stage | 4th stage of Piaget's CD (11-15 years)in which thinking becomes more abstract, idealistic and logical |
| Attachment | The close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver |
| Secure Attachment | An important aspect of socioemotional development in which infants use the caregiver, usually the mother, as a secure base from which to explore the environment |
| Temperament | An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding |
| Authoritarian Parenting | A restrictive, punitive parenting style in which the parent exhorts the child to follow the parent's directions and to value hard work and effort |
| Authoritative Parenting | A parenting style that encourage's children's independence but still places limits and controls on the child's behavior. |
| Neglectful Parenting | A parenting style in which parents are uninvolved in their child's life. |
| Indulgent Parenting | A parenting style in which parents are involved with their children but place few limits on them. |
| Prosocial Behavior | Behavior that is intended to benefit other people. |
| Androgen | The main class of male sex hormones |
| Estrogens | The main class of female sex hormones |
| Gender Roles | Expectations for how females and males should think, feel and act. |
| Resilience | A person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times |
| Puberty | A period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence |
| Identity vs. Identity Confusion | Erikson's 5th psychological stage in which adolescents face the challenge of finding out who they are, what they are all about, and where they are going in life |
| Emerging Adulthood | The transformation from adolescents to adulthood |
| Crystallized Intelligence | An individual's accumulated information and verbal skills. |
| Fluid Intelligence | An individual's ability to reason abstractly |
| Wisdom | Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life |
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