Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Chapter 4 Developing through the life span
David Meyers chapter 4
42
Psychology
12th Grade
10/23/2012

Additional Psychology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Developmental psychology
-A branch of psychology that studies physical cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

Chapter 4
pg 139
zygote, psychology
Definition
Term
Zygote
-The fertilized egg; it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

Chapter 4
Pg 141
Embryo, Fetus
Definition
Term
Embryo
-the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

Chapter 4
Pg 141
Zygote, Fetus
Definition
Term
Fetus
-The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.

Chapter 4
pg 141
Embryo, zygote
Definition
Term
Teratogens
-agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

Chapter 4
Pg 141
Embryo, Zygote, Fetus
Definition
Term
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
-physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.

Chapter 4
Pg 142
Rooting reflex
Definition
Term
Rooting Reflex
-A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple.

Chapter 4
pg 142
FAS
Definition
Term
Habituation
-Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.

Chapter 4
pg 143
FAS, Rooting reflex
Definition
Term
Maturation
- biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

Chapter 4
PG 145
Rooting reflex, FAS
Definition
Term
Schema
-A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Chapter 4
pg 147
Development, Maturation
Definition
Term
Assimilation
-Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.

Chapter 4
pg 149
Maturation, development, Cognition
Definition
Term
Accommodation
-Adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information.

Chapter 4
pg 149
Assimilation, development, schema
Definition
Term
Cognition
-All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Chapter 4
Pg 149
Assimilation, Accommodation, schema
Definition
Term
Sensorimotor stage
-In piaget's theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

Chapter 4
Pg 149
Assimilation, Schema, Development
Definition
Term
Object permanence
-The awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved

Chapter 4
pg 149
Schema, Assimilation
Definition
Term
Preoperational stage
-Piaget's theory. The stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

Chapter 4
PG 150
Conservation, Ego
Definition
Term
Conservation
-Piaget's principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

Chapter 4
Pg 150
Operational stage, Piaget
Definition
Term
Egocentrism
-Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.

Chapter 4
Pg 150
Theory of mind, conservation
Definition
Term
Theory of mind
-People's ideas about their own and others' mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict.

Chapter 4
Pg 150
Piaget, Ego
Definition
Term
Autism
-A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind.

Chapter 4
Pg 152
Childhood, Development
Definition
Term
Concrete Operational stage
-Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.

Chapter 4
pg 153
Piaget, childhood
Definition
Term
Formal Operational Stage:
-Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Chapter 4
Pg 154
Piaget, Development
Definition
Term
Stranger anxiety
-The fear of stangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age

Chapter 4
pg 154
Piaget, development
Definition
Term
Attachment
-an emotional tie with another person

Chapter 4
pg 154
Piaget, stranger Anxiety
Definition
Term
Critical period
-An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli produces preper development.

Chapter 4
Pg 156
Piaget, development
Definition
Term
Imprinting
-The process where certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life

Chapter 4
PG 156
Piaget, Critical period
Definition
Term
Basic Trust
- According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy

Chapter 4
PG 158
Erik Erikson
Definition
Term
self-concept
-A sense of one's identity and person worth

Chapter 4
Pg 161
Piaget
Definition
Term
Adolescence
-The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence

Chapter 4
Pg 164
Puberty, Childhood
Definition
Term
Puberty
-The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.

Chapter 4
pg 164
Adolescence, Development
Definition
Term
Primary Sex characteristics
-The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible

Chapter 4
pg 164
Adolescence, puberty
Definition
Term
Secondary sex characteristics
-nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality and body hair.

chapter 4
pg 164
Puberty, Adolescence
Definition
Term
Menarche
-The first menstrual period

Chapter 4
Pg 167
Puberty, adolescence
Definition
Term
Identity
-one's sense of self

Chapter 4
Pg 171
Adolescence, Erik Erikson
Definition
Term
Intimacy
-In erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships, a primary developmental task in late adolesecnce and early adulthood.

Chapter 4
Pg 172
Puberty, identity
Definition
Term
Menopause
-the time of natural cessation of mestruation.

Chapter 4
Pg 177
Development
Definition
Term
Alzheimer's disease
-A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, physical functioning.

Chapter 4
Pg 180
Aging, developmental, identity
Definition
Term
Cross-sectional study
-A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.

Chapter 4
pg 183
Longitudinal study, correlation
Definition
Term
Longitudinal study
-Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.

Chapter 4
Pg 183
Cross-sectional study, Case study
Definition
Term
Crystallized intelligence
-one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills

Chapter 4
pg 184
Fluid intelligence
Definition
Term
Fluid intelligence
-One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly

Chapter 4
Pg 184
Crystallized intelligence
Definition
Term
Social Clock
-The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.

Chapter 4
pg 187
Developmental psychology
Definition
Supporting users have an ad free experience!