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Human Growth/Dev ch3
chapter 3 terms from "lifespan development" textbook
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the option that a given situation or stimulus provides. | Affordances |
| a measure designed to determine infants' neurological and behavioral responses to their environment (96) | Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)- |
| the upper layer of the brain | cerebral cortex |
| the theory that processing in all parts of the nervous system including the brain is less efficient. | generalized slowing hypothesis |
| specialists who study aging | gerontologists |
| a condition in which pressure in the fluid of the eye increases, either because the fluid can not drain properly or because too much fluid is produced. | glaucoma |
| the preference of using one hand over the other. | handedness |
| the process in which certain cognitive functions are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than in the other. | lateralization |
| the onset of menstruation | menarche |
| the approach that considers how information that is collected by various individual sensory systems is integrated and coordinated. | multimodal approach to perception |
| protective insulation that surrounds parts of neurons, increasing the speed of transmission of electrical impulses along the brain cells. | myelin |
| the average performance of a large sample of children of a given age. | Norms |
| a condition in which the bones become brittle, fragile, and thin often brought about by a lack of calcium in the diet. | osteoporosis |
| the sorting out, interpretation, analysis and integration of stimuli involving the sense organs and brain. | Perception |
| the theory that suggests that overall processing speed declines in the peripheral nervous system with increasing age. | peripheral slowing hypothesis |
| the degree to which a developing structure or behavior is modified due to experience. | plasticity |
| loss of the ability to hear sounds of high frequency. | Presbycusis |
| a nearly universal change in eyesight during middle-adulthood that results in some loss of near vision. | presbyopia |
| aging that involves universal and irrerversible changes that due to genetic programming occur as people get older | primary aging |
| characteristics associated with the development of the organs and structures of the body that directly relates to reproduction | primary sex characteristics |
| the period of maturation during which the sexual organs mature | puberty |
| the period of sleep that is found in older children and adults and is associated with dreaming. | rapid eye movement (REM) sleep |
| unlearned, organized, involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of certain stimuli | Reflexes |
| repetitive, cyclical patterns of behavior | rhythms |
| changes in physical and cognitve functioning that are due to illness, heath habits and other individual differences but that are not due to increased age itself and are not ineveitable. | secondary aging |
| the visible signs of sexual maturity that do not directly involve sex organs | secondary sex characteristics |
| the natural, physical decline brought about by increasing age. | senescence |
| the physical stimulation of the sense organs | sensation |
| a point in development when organisms are particualarly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environments, but the absense of those stimuli does not always produce irrerversible consequences. | sensitive period |
| speech that deviates so much from the speech of others that it calls attention to itself, interferes with communication or produces maladjustment in the speaker. | speech impairment |
| degreee of awareness, an infant displays to both internal and external stimulation | state |
| substantial disruption in the rhythm and fluency of speech; the most common speech impairment. | stuttering |
| the elimination of neurons as the result of nonuse or lack of stimulation | synaptic pruning |
| a special need that involves significant loss of sight. | visual impairment |
| hormone that appears to play a role in the onset of puberty. | leptin |
| boy's first ejaculation | Spermarche |
| protein that forms the basic fibers of body tissue | collagen |
| people's physical and pyschological well-being | functional ages |
| 65-74yr olds are called | young-olds |
| 75-84 yr olds are called | old-olds |
| 85yr+ are called | oldest-olds |
| cluster of fibers that receive messages from cells | dendrites |
| extension of a neuron that carries messages for other neurons | axon |
| chemical messengers that travel across synapses | neurotransmitter |
| below the cerebral cortex | subcortical level |
| child abuse that occurs when a child is shaken | shaken-baby-syndrome |
| a bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain | corpus callosum |
| developmental disability that produces language deficits and difficulty interacting with others | autism |
| part of the brain allowing people to think, evaluate and make complex judgments | pre-frontal cortex |
| designed to protect the eye from too much light | eye blink reflex |
| infants arm thrust outward then appear to seek to grasp onto something | moro relfex (startle response) |
| thumb and index finger meet to form a circle | pincer grasp |
| the first stages of a child's artistic development which is scrawls on a page | scribbling stage |
| stage around age 3 when a child starts to draw shapes | shape stage |
| stage where child combines more than one shape | design stage |
| stage where child can draw recognizable objects (around 4-5yrs old) | pictoral stage |
| how pain in infancy affects pain in adulthood | neuroscience and development |
| sharpness of hearing | auditory acuity |
| visual acuity below 20/200 after correction (inability to see at 20 ft which is normally seen at 200 ft) | blindness |
| ability to discern fine detail in both close and distant objects | visual acuity |
| hair cells in the inner ear | cilia |
| trouble identifying direction and origin of a sound | sound-localization |
| plastic lens permanently placed in the eye | intraocular lens implant |
| common cause of blindness in people over 60 | age-related macular degeneration |
| yellowish area near the retina that which visual perception is most acute. | macula |
| high blood pressure | hypertension |
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