Ch.1 Issues & Themes
This consists of guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions that impact a person's quality of life
What is social policy?
The part of personality that consists of basic drives, operates on the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
Research intended to help us make changes that will improve the lives of children.
What is Applied Developmental Research?
The field of study focused on describing genes and how they work.
What is Molecular Genetics?
This layer of the blastocyst will go on to become the digestive system, lungs, urinary tract, and glands.
What is the endoderm?
Continuous or incremental change in the quantity of something.
What is quantitative change
This concept acknowledges that humans actively construct their understanding of the world.
What is constructivism?
This form of research captures behavior as it naturally occurs.
What is naturalistic observation?
An interaction of the genotype and environment, these are the observable characteristics of people.
What is the phenotype?
Skin-to-skin contact with a newborn baby, is associated with improved physiological functioning in babies.
What is kangaroo care?
This concept acknowledges that the same pathway can result in different outcomes.
What is multifinality?
What is dynamic assessment?
In this relationship, as the value of one variable goes down, the value of the other variable goes up.
What is an inverse/negative correlation?
The restriction of human developmental outcomes to one or a few potential outcomes.
What is canalization?
On this scale, a score of 4 or below would indicate the infant's need for life-saving intervention.
What is the APGAR scale?
This is impacted by factors like SES and culture, examples include the home and school environment.
This theorist believed that issues of the ego were more important than those linked to the id and instinctual drives.
Who is Erikson?
A research study that captures information on one moment in time, providing a snapshot of a particular population.
What is cross-sectional research?
When a child's genetic tendencies results in behavior that evokes a certain response from those around them.
What is an evocative gene-environment interaction?
An example of this pattern of development is evident in the early development of brain and eyes within the fetus, as compared to the later development of the limbs.
What is the cephalocaudal trend of development?
The idea that development includes both gains and losses in functioning.
What is multidirectional development?
Settings that the child doesn't enter, but that effect the child's development.
What is the exosystem?
Order these correlations in size from weak to strong:
0.25, -.05, -.50, .75
What is: -.05, 0.25, -.50, .75
Development that is the result of ongoing, bidirectional exchanges between the environment and one's genetics.
What is epigenesis?
These are the four principles of teratogenic effects?
Dose, Timing, Heredity and Cumulative Nature.