Unit 1: Genetics & Human Needs
This psychologist created the famous Hierarchy of Needs system that ranks human basic needs from physical survival up to self-actualization
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Environmental substances like drugs, alcohol, radiation, or infectious diseases that cause damage during prenatal development are given this general name.
What are teratogens?
Infancy generally refers to the first year of life, whereas this term refers to a child in their second year of life.
What is a toddler?
Adolescence, which typically spans ages 11 to 20, is marked by this biological process that brings reproductive maturity and adult body size.
What is puberty?
This term describes the formal scientific study of aging and its effects on the body.
What is gerontology?
Human DNA is organized into this many total pairs of chromosomes, with one chromosome in each pair inherited from each parent
What is 23 pairs?
During the embryo period, this outer cellular layer develops specifically into the skin and the nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.
What is the ectoderm?
Emerging in early childhood around ages 2 to 6, this type of play occurs when children understand sharing and begin actively playing together.
What is cooperative play?
Occurring between ages 20 and 40, adults in this developmental stage are generally in their physical prime and shift intellectually from acquiring knowledge to applying it in work settings.
What is early adulthood?
In Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief, this stage typically comes second, right after denial, when a terminally ill patient can no longer reject the truth and becomes hostile
What is anger?
Also known as cognitive development, this area of human development focuses on a person's ability to learn and apply knowledge to new problems.
What is intellectual development?
Within minutes after birth, newborns are evaluated on five categories: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration, to receive this rating score.
What is the Apgar score (or Apgar scale)?
Also known as nocturnal enuresis, this stressful condition common in middle childhood has been shown by researchers to have a significant hereditary contribution.
What is bedwetting?
Taking place towards the end of middle adulthood (ages 40 to 60) for women, this life event is marked by the end of the menstrual cycle and reproductive ability
What is menopause?
According to theories on cellular aging, these highly reactive forms of oxygen are released as oxygen breaks down, damaging cells as they attempt to find new surroundings.
What are free radicals?
Diseases like Down syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and Turner syndrome belong to this specific category of genetic conditions caused by broken, missing, or extra chromosomes.
What are chromosomal diseases?
This specific newborn reflex is triggered when a cheek is stroked near the mouth, causing the baby to turn its head toward the stimulation.
What is the rooting reflex?
In middle childhood, an increased love of reading or close-up work can heighten the chances of developing this common vision issue, also called myopia.
What is nearsightedness?
In late adulthood (ages 60 to 80), despite a decline in individual neurons, the brain helps preserve connectivity by forming new versions of these small connector gaps.
What are synapses?
A 70-year-old man has roughly 50% of the muscle strength of a 30-year-old man, a decrease primarily caused by this medical term for muscle wasting.
What is atrophy?
This medical treatment approach aims to treat single-cell genetic diseases specifically by replacing mutant genes with normal ones
What is gene therapy?
Rh blood incompatibility can cause severe damage in a fetus when an Rh-negative mother builds antibodies against an Rh-positive fetus; a mother receives a vaccine to prevent this if the father possesses this blood protein status.
What is Rh-positive?
Towards the end of the first year of life, infants often display two distinct forms of emotional distress regarding unfamiliar people and being away from parents, known as these two types of anxiety.
What are stranger anxiety and separation anxiety?
The eating disorder marked by extreme binge eating followed by periods of fasting, self-induced vomiting, or laxative use is known as bulimia, or by this combined term when purging is severe.
What is bulimarexia?
Within mortuary science, funeral directors employ these specific workers to scientifically prepare the body, fill out reports, and track the deceased's clothing and valuables.
What are embalmers?