Prenatal Development
Term for baby still in womb.
What is fetus?
The scientist who's theory started with dogs and their chemical reaction to foods.
Who is Pavlov?
Three types of development
What are physical, cognitive, and social-emotional?
Gaining weight.
What is a quantitative change?
Location of amygdala and hippocampus?
Where is the deeper layer in the brain?
Amount of trimesters in pregnancy.
What is 3 trimesters?
The natural response a being has to a stimuli before any conditioning has taken place.
What is the unconditioned response (UCR)?
Ages children are in middle childhood.
What is ages 6-12?
A change in a mothers diet from prenatal to postnatal.
What is a qualitative change?
The part of the brain that is in charge of understanding language, memory, and hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
Length of time the germinal stage of pregnancy lasts.
What is 2 weeks?
When the being has an unwanted stimuli removed following a desired behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
When genes become a driving force for children to seek out certain experiences.
What is active gene-environment interaction?
Having one baby of your own and then having another two years later.
What is quantitative change?
The part of the brain that is in control of vision, color perception, and reading.
What is the Occipital lobe?
2 names for the natural loss of a pregnancy before reaching 20 weeks.
What is miscarriage or spontaneous abortion?
Theory that states all aspects of development interact and contribute to the adult the child grows into.
What is Dynamic Systems Theory?
The common argument over environmental influences or genetic influences playing the biggest role in a person.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
scooting->crawling->walking.
What is qualitative change?
When synaptic connections that don't get used anymore deteriorate and disappear.
What is pruning?
Agents that can lead to deformations of fetus/embryo.
What is teratogens?
The item the children interacted with in the video we watched about imitation.
What was a bobo doll?
The difference between gross motor and fine motor skills.
What is the size and preciseness needed for the movement?
Development in everyday thought from "what happened in class" to "what happened at work."
What is qualitative thought?
Amount of neurons in the brain.
What is approximately 86 billion?