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Zygote: fertilized eggs fetus: organism after 9 weeks after conception |
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| The formation of a placenta signals the onset of what development? |
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| Define the embroyonic period of prenatal development |
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| Teratogen: Harmful agents that slip by the placental screen |
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| What is the impact of a mother's smoking on the newborn baby? |
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| Name on e of the most consistently damagin teratogens |
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| What are the symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome |
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brain abnormalities, behavior problems small, misproportioned head |
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| What does the rooting reflex refer to? |
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| tendency, when touched of the cheek to open the mouth and search for the nipple |
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| Newborns hav e been observed to show the greatest visual interest in what? |
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| When placed close to a gauze breast pad fromt heir nursing mothers, week-old babies are likely to do what? |
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| decrease in responding with responding with repeated stimulation |
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| maturation refers to what? |
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| the biological growth processese that enable orderly changes in behavior |
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| the relative lack of neural interconnections in the brain at the time fo birth most dierectly contributes to what? |
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| lack of memories before 3 yrs old |
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| How are infant motor developments typically characterized? |
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| Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of what kind of develpment? |
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| Describe the mind of a child according to Piaget |
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| concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas |
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| adapting current understandings tio incorporate new experiences |
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| Give the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development |
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| Define sensorimotor stage |
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| stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of the their sensory impressions and motor activites |
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| Babies accustomed to a puppet jumping three times on stage show surprise if the puppet jumps only twice. what does this suggest according to piaget? |
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| knows language, but not logic |
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| If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to do what? |
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| quantity remains the same despite changes in shape |
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| Who emphasized the egocentrism of preschoolers? |
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| inability to take another point of view |
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| Give the best illustration possible of children having developed a theory of mind |
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| deficient social aid communications |
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| Know the concrete operational stage |
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| gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events |
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| when do people begin to think abstractly |
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| emotional tie with another person |
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| Studies of monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that mother-infant emotional bonds result primarily from mothers providing infants with what? |
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| optimal period shortly after birth when exposure to certain stimuli produces proper development |
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| Discuss insecure attachment |
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| In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting, how will ifants with a asecure maternal attachment act? |
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| Define responsive parenting |
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| Marlys is a sensitive, responsive parent who is consistently satisfies the needs of Sara, her infant doughter. Explain this according to Erikson. |
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| Describe the research of Harry Harlow |
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| Know what occurs re: the deprivation of attachment |
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| Define authoritarian, authoritative, permissibe styles of parenting and give examples |
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| Define authoritarian, authoritative, permissibe styles of parenting and give examples |
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| life between childhood and adulthood-transition of independance and puberty |
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| what are primary sex characteristics |
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| structures that make sexual reproduction possible |
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| Describe early puberty of overweight girls |
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| Describe the late bloomers, and boys who mature sexually at an early age |
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| Give an example of a secondary sex characteristic |
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| Define and discuss moral development |
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| children leaving the house |
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| Define formal operational |
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| Define preconventional morality |
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| obey to avoid punishment or get concrete awards |
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| Devine conventional morality |
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| cares for others and obeys because they are expected to |
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| What does postconventional morality involve? |
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| Give an example of Kohlberg's postconventional stag eof morality |
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| depating over rights and politics |
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| Kohlberg emphasized that human behavior becomes less selfish as we mature due to what |
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| According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the the special task of whom? |
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| Study in detail all of Erikson's theory and stages -BRUTAL DETAIL |
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| Erikson suggested that the adolescent search for identity is followed by a developing capacity for what? |
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| Compared with males, females are more likely to base their sense of personal identity on their what? |
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| As to intimacy, compare women to men |
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| When do physical abilities such as muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness and cardiac output reach their peak? |
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| What do men experience as they advance through middle adulthood |
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| Discuss the physical changes in later life |
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| What has the research on the elderly shown? |
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| Define a cross sectional study |
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| people of different ages all compared with one another |
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| Define crystallized intelligence |
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| accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, increase with age |
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| Define fluid intelligence |
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| reason fluidly and abstractly |
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| Define and give an example of abstract reasoning |
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| cultural preferred timing of social events such as marriage |
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| Discuss adulthood's commitments |
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| Know the research of premarital cohabitation |
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| What happens when people whose first marriage ends in divorce |
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| What do mothers most frequently report when children grow up and leave home |
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| Discuss the grieving period following the death of one's spouse |
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| Define identity, integrity re: Erikson |
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| A belief that adult personality is completely determined in early childhood years would be most relevant to the issue of what |
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| Concerning anxious children , discuss stability or change |
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| Discuss the stability of personality traits re: adults and children |
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