Concepts
Getting your drivers license or wisdom teeth are examples of what kind of life event?
What is a Normative Life Event
What is conflict
Thread-like tentacles that receive messages from other neurons and pass them to the body are called ___________?
Dendrites
Stress, pollutants and drugs that can cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioural outcomes are called what?
Teratogens
A counter narrative to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is ________________?
Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation beliefs
What are the 4 kinds of Development people experience throughout their life?
According to Piaget, a child has difficulty understanding life from any other perspective than his own, in what stage of development?
Preoperational Stage
The fatty, insulating material called the myelin sheath can be found on what part of the nerve?
The axon
This reflex involves the baby curling its toes when the sole of the foot is stroked?
Babinski reflex
Imaginary Audience Theory, or the belief that everyone is looking at you when you enter the room, is whose theory?
David Elkind
What is the motivating factor of the Id?
The pleasure principal
What is the idea called when Piaget said that children can't understand that 1 cup of water in a short glass and 1 cup of water in a tall glass is the same amount of water?
Conservation
The Synapse is responsible for what in the brain?
sending neurotransmitters across a tiny space to allow neurons to communicate to each other.
Kwashiorkor is a medical condition when children have what 2 symptoms?
Low protein and a bloated belly
A word for the kind of stress that can be helpful to release cortisol in your body is ____________.
Eustress
The influences of genetics and biological factors is known as?
Nature
Peek-a-boo is a game where babies think their moms disappear if they haven't reached this stage of Piaget's development theory?
Object Permanence
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change throughout an individual’s lifespan due to what?
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors?
As children get older their play becomes more what?
Social
An adolescent who has gone through an identity crisis, explored meaningful alternatives and then committed to a certain identity has achieved what?
Identity achievement
Which of the following does NOT describe life span development:
it is life long, multidimensional, plastic or stagnant
What is stagnant
Mesosystem is about the interactions between different systems (family, community) and their interaction on the child, is part of whose theory?
Bronfenbrenner
Eliminating extra neurons and making synaptic connections more efficient and increasing the ability to learn in the brain is part of what?
Synaptic pruning
A prominent sign of language development in adolescence is their ability to talk about their what?
Feelings
When adolescents are actively making decisions about who they want to be (Identity versus Confusion) is often referred to as what?
adolescent identity crisis