Lifespan Test 1

____is the patteren of movement or change that starts at conception and continues through the human life span

____ is the perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional , plastic, multidisciplinary and contextual; involves growtth , maintence and regulation : and is constructed through biological, sociocultural and individual factors working together

_____ is the biological and enviromental influences that are similar for individuals in a particular age group

______ is the biological and enviromental influences that are associated with history. These influences are common to people of a particular generation

____ is the unusual occurrences that have a major impact on a person's life. the occurance, patteren and sequence of these events are not applicable to many individuals

____ is the comparisons of one culture with one or more other cultures. These provide information about the degree to which children's development is similar or universal, across cultures, and to the degree to which it is culture specific

____ is a range of characteristics rooted in cultural heritage, including nationality, race, religion, and language

____ refers to the conceptual grouping of people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics

____ is a national government's course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens

___ is the changes in an individual's physical features

____ are changes in an individual's thought, intelligence and language

____ Is the debate about the extent to which development is influenced by nature abd by nuture. nature refere to an organisms bilogical inheritance, nuture ti uts enviromental experiences

___ is the debate about the extent to which development involves gradual, cumulative change(continuity) or distinct change (discontinuity)

___ are the theories that hold development depends primarily on the unconscious mind and is heavily couched in emotion that behavior is merely a surface characteristic, that is important to analyze the symbolic meanings of behavior, and that early experiences are important in development

___ is the theory that children construct their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive

_____ is a sociocultural cognitive thory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development

____is a theory that focuses on five enviromental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem

___ is a test that is given with uniform procedures for administration and scoring

___ is a research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time

____ is a research strategy in which the same individuals are studied over a period of time, usually several years or more

_____ empasizes the importance of adaptaion, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest"in shaping behavior

____ are threadlike structures made up of DNA

____ is a complex molecule with a double helix shape that contains genetic imformation

____are units of hereditary information composed of DNA. Genes direct cells to reproduce themselves and manufacture the protiens that maintain life

___ is a specialized form of cell division that occurs to form eggs and sperm(Gametes)

____ is cellular reproduction in which the cells nucleus duplicates its self with two new cells being formed, each conatining the same DNA as the parent cell, arranged in the same 23 pairs of chromosomes

___ is a person's genetic heritage; the actual genetic material

___ is the way an individual's genotype is expressed in observed and measurable characteristics

___ is a chromosomally transmitted form of mental retardation, caused be the presence of an extra copy of chromosme 21

____ is the field that seeks to discover the influence of heredity and enviroment on individual differences in human traits and development

____ is a study in which the behavioral similarity of identical twins is compared with the behavioral similarity of fraternal twins

___ is a study in which investigators seek to discover whether, in behavior and psychological charateristics, adopted children are more like their adoptive parents, who provided a home enviroment, or like their biological parentm who contributed their heredity. Another form of the adoption study is to compare adoptive and biological siblings

____ Empasizes that development is the result of an ongoin, bidirectional interchange between heredityand enviroment

____ is the period of prental development that occurs two to eight weeks after conception. during the embryonic period, the rate of cell differentiation intensifies, support systems for the cells form , and organs

____ is ther period of the prenatal development that takes place in the first two weeks after conception. it includes the creation of the zygote, contined cell division and the attachment of the zygote to the uterine wall

____ is organ formation that takes place during the first two months of prenatal development

____ is the prenatal period of development that begins two months after conception and lasts for seven months on the average

____ are nerve cells which handle information processing at the cellular level in the brain

____ is any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negativley alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes

____ is a widely used assessment of the newborns health at 1 and 5 minytes after birth

____ is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-- the head-- with pyshical growth in size, weight, and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom

___ is the sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities

____ is the specialization of function in one hemisphere of cerebral cortex or the other

___ is a condition that occurs when an infant stops breathing, usually during the night , and suddenlydie with an apparent cause

____ is perspective on motor development that seeks to explain how motor behaviors aew assembled for perceiving and acting

____ is the product of the interaction between information and the sensory receptors- the eyes, ears, tounge, nostrils, and skin

____ is the interpretation of what is sensed

_____is the view that perception functions to bring organisms in contact with the enviroment and to increase adaption

__ is the decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus