Chapter Five: Developing Through the Life Span

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focuses on how people and continuously developing (physically, cognitively, and socially) from birth to old age...

developmental psychology

three major issues of developmental psychology:

nature/nurture, continuity/stages, stabiltiy/change

what is a zygote?

a fertilized egg

the zygote atttaches to the mother's uterine wall about 10 days after conception to form...

the embryo

nine weeks after conception, te embryo looks human and forms...

a fetus

the outer cells of zygote that attach to the uterine wall is called...

the placenta

harmful chemicals that the placenta tries to keep away from the fetus...

teratogens

what is fetal alcohol syndrome?

A congenital syndrome caused by excessive consumption of alcohol by the mother during pregnancy

what is habituation?

the idea that the newborn is competent; decreased responsiveness with continuous stimulation

nerve cells are...

created in the womb.

neural networks...

branch out and become more complex (they grow) & they eventually help you walk and talk.

what is the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience... ?

maturation

what is the concept of infantile amnesia?

the belief that our first memories do not predate our 3rd birthday.

what did piaget believe about cognitive development?

biological development+enviormental experiences=intellectual development

a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information is...

schemas

incorporating new experiences into our current understanding (schema) is... ?

assimilation

process of adjusting and modifying a schema is.. ?

acommodation.

the fear of strangers that develops around 8 months old is... ?

stranger anxiety.

an emotional tie with another person iis called...

attachment

there are two types of attachment...

secure attachment and insecure attachment

a sense that the world around children is reliable and predictable is called...

basic trust.

understanding and evaluating who we are is called...

self-concept

parents enforce rules and expect obedience is called...

authoritarian

parents that let their children do as they wish are called..

permissive.

parents that are both demanding and responsive are called...

authoritative.

the transitin period between childhood to adulthood; puberty and independence is called...

adolescence

"mental erosion"

dementia

the most well known form of dementia...

alzheimer's disease.

the most remembered years...

teens and 20's... many firsts occur.

study in which people of different ages are compared with each other is...

cross-sectional study.

study in which same people are restudied over a long period of time...

longitudinal study.

the knowledge and verbal skills that we accumulate; increases with age.

crystallized intelligence.

our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; decreases in late adulthood...

fluid intelligence

the timing (preferred by our culture) of social events...

social clock.