Psych: Chapter 9 Life Span Development

A period of special sensitivity to specific types of learning that shapes the capacity for future development

The inability to consider another's point of view, which Piaget considered a hallmark of preoperational stage

The third, and final stage of prenatal development (8 weeks to birth), characterized by rapid weight gain in the fetus and the fine detailing of body organs and systems

Prejudice or discrimination against an individual based on physical age

A strong affectional bond with special others that endures over time

An innate form of learning within a critical period that involves attachment to the first, large moving object seen

How do teratogens affect the individual?

Environmental agent that causes damage during prenatal development. Anything bad that the mother can do that can cause damage.

Biological changes during adolescence that lead to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity

Piaget's 1st stage (0-2 years old) in which schemas are developed through sensory and motor activities

2nd stage of the prenatal development that begins after uterine implantation and lasts through the 8th week

Piaget's 4th stage (11 years+) characterized by abstract and hypothetical thinking

When the sperm fuses with the egg

Research that measures people of various ages at one point in time and gives info about age differences

The study of age-related changes in behavior and mental processes from birth to death

Piaget's third stage (7-11 years). The child can perform mental operations on concrete objects and understand reversibility and conservation, but abstract thinking is not yet present

Understanding that certain physical characteristics (such as volume) remain unchanged, even when their outward appearance changes.

In Piaget's theory, adjusting old schemas and developing new ones to better fit with new info.

An infant's understanding that objects or people continue to exist even why they cannot be directly see, heard or touched

A combination of birth defects, including organ deformities and mental, motor, or growth retardation, that results from maternal alcohol abuse

Absorbing new information into existing schemas

Development governed by automatic, genetically predetermined signals

Research that measures a single individual or group of individuals over an extended period and gives info about age changes (life span changes)

1st stage of prenatal development that begins with conception and ends with implantation in the uterus (first 2 weeks)

Piaget's second stage, (2-7 years) characterized by the ability to employ significant language and to think symbolically

What is poorly developed during birth?

Gradual, inevitable changes vs. changes due to disease, disuse, or neglect

Believed infants begin at a cognitively "primitive" level and progress in distinct stages

Most basic unit of intellect, which acts as patterns that organize interactions with the environment (Piaget)

Physical Characteristics of FAS?
(3)

Non-Physical characteristics of FAS?
(3)

What are the effects of smoking cigarettes while pregnant?

These are examples of:
Lack of eyelids
Respiratory problems
Translucent skin
Excess digits of finger or toes
Nicotine Addicition

What is the normal curve for IQ?

What is Down's Syndrome caused by?

What are the 4 physical characteristics of Down's Syndrome?

When is someone most likely to have a miscarriage?

How do we know a child can see?

When rubbing a baby's cheek and it turns its head and opens it's mouth in search of a nipple for food

3 flaws of Piaget's theory?

Child stays close to mother, shows moderate distress when separated, and is happy when mother returns

Strange situation procedure; identified three types of attachment in children

Child treats mother and stranger the same and rarely cries when mother leaves

Child is upset as mother leaves; cries uncontrollably and mother provides no real sense of comfort when she returns

Which level of attachment is healthiest?

What are the three types of Parenting styles?

3 Levels of Attachment?

4 Stages of Cognitive?

Object Permanence and Stranger Anxiety

Egocentrism, Animistic thinking, and lack of conservation

Gain of conservation, simple operations and language development

Abstract logical thought

They set little rules, boundaries, and they don't care. The worst parenting style

Overly strict, no reason as to why. 2nd worst parenting style

They are strict, but it's for a good reason. Best parenting style

3 Major Research issues in developmental psychology

Heredity vs. Environment

Continuous and gradual vs. Periods of abrupt changes and then periods of little change

Characteristics maintained vs. Characteristics different