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Chapter 5
Developing Through the Life Span
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/18/2014

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Physical Development
Definition
Motor skills primarily
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Developing Brain
Definition
Huge increase in brain development
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Maturation
Definition
Basic coarse of developing in systematic way
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Rooting Reflex
Definition
Instinct of touching infants cheek and they turn their head
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Stranger Anxiety
Definition
Kid exposed to unfamiliar face will cry
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Imprinting
Definition
Special connection to a parent (geese)
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Harlow
Definition
Desire for soft loving body contact
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Motor Development
Definition
Walking Progression
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Conscious Memory
Definition
Develops around age 3 and 1/2
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Schemas
Definition
Mental molds from our experiences
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Assimilation
Definition
Incorporate new experiences
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Accommodation
Definition
Change or modification to schema
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Cognitive Development
Definition
Learn through trial and error
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Order of Piaget's Learning Stages
Definition
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational
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Sensorimotor
Definition
Object permanence- something gone from sight is still in existence
Stranger Anxiety
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Preoperational
Definition
Pretend play
Egocentrism- world not focused on you
Language development
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Concrete Operational
Definition
Conversation
Mathematical Transformations
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Formal Operational
Definition
Abstract logic
Moral reasoning
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Secure Attachment
Definition
Trust for care giver
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Insecure Attachment
Definition
No trust for care giver
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Avoidant
Definition
Detached from parent, doesn't cry, completely uninterested
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Anxious/Ambivalent
Definition
Fear of abandonment, hits parent upon return
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Primary Sexual Characteristic
Definition
Sex things develop
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Pruning
Definition
Unused pieces of your brain die off
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Cognitive Development
Definition
What is morally right and wrong, egocentrism understood
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Spotlight Effect
Definition
Over estimating how much other people notice you
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Morality
Definition
Difference between right and wrong
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Preconventional Morality
Definition
Based on rewards and punishments (mom and dad)
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Conventional Morality
Definition
Based on rules and laws (drive speed limit because that's the law)
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Postconventional Morality
Definition
Own ethical beliefs (Steal to save mother)
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Authoritarian Parenting
Definition
Impose rules and expect obedience because they same so
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Permissive Parenting
Definition
Submit to child's demands
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Authoritative Parenting
Definition
Demanding but responsive to kids
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Middle Adulthood
Definition
Around 50 decrease in muscle
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Late Adulthood
Definition
Significant decrease in motor skills around 70
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Adulthood Commitments
Definition
Very healthy to have commitment, job, relationships, kids
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Death and Dying
Definition
Expected death is less emotional, unexpected death is more emotional
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