Intro to Developmental Psych
Physical Development- Prenatal
Physical Development- Through Adulthood
Perceptual Development Development
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One of the themes in developmental psychology.
What is Nature and nurture interact in development We are whole people throughout the lifespan There is both continuity and discontinuity in development There is plasticity in development We develop in a cultural and historical context We are active in our own development Development is best viewed from multiple perspectives Development is a lifelong process Some, but not all, aspects of development are universal
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The stages of prenatal development
What is germinal (fertilization, single-celled zygote begins to divide, blastocyst becomes fully embedded in the wall of the uterus), embryonic (the heart divides into 4 chambers, ears, mouth, throat take shape), fetal (final stage - fingernails, hair, teeth buds, eyelashes all begin to grow)
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And openness of the brain cells to positive and negative enviornmental influence; a capacity to change in response to experience.
What is plasticity?
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The ability to adapt to visualizing in the dark. (the moments when the lights get turned off and your eyes adapt).
What is dark adaptation?
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Systematic changes in the individual occuring between conception and death.
What is development?
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The goals of studying developmental psychology
What is describing, explaining, optimizing.
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A point when a fetus may survive outside the uterus if the brain and the respiratory system are well enough developed and if excellent medical care is provided.
What is age of viability?
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The difference between fine and gross motor skills.
Fine motor skills - general skills such as kicking and drawing Gross motor skills - more specific, such as picking up food, or writing letters. In other words, things that involve more precise movements.
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The difference between sensation and perception
What is sensation - the process by which sensory receptor neurons detect information and transmit it to the brain perception - the interpretation of sensory input: recognizing what you see, understanding what is said to you
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the focusing of perception and cognition on something in particular.
What is attention?
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The 3 domains of development (categories)
What is physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development
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The prenatal enviornment
What is the mother's womb (they are influenced by their surroundings)
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Extreme bone loss in later life.
What is osteoporosis?
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A common vision condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry.
What is myopia?
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When and organ system in a fetus grows the most rapidly.
What is a critical period?
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A person's sense of when things should be done and when he/she is is ahead or behind the schedule dictated by age norms.
What is the social clock?
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There is a good deal of ____ between prenatal behavior and postnatal behavior.
continuity (newborn behavior does not spring from nowhere; it emerges long before birth)
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When a woman's reproductive system ages in midlife, and levels of estrogen and other female hormones decline.
What is menopause?
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Problems of the aging eye, especially loss of near vision related to a decreased ability of the lens to accommodate to objects close to the eye.
What is presbyopia?
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basic speech sounds
What are phonemes?
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The difference between longitudinal and cross-sectional design
What is Cross sectional- the performances of oeople of different age groups, or cohorts are compared. Longitudinal- the performance of one cohort of individulas is assessed repeatedly over time. Measures age changes- not age differences.
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Any disease, drug, or other enviornmental agent that can harm the developing fetus.
What are teratogens?
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Triggered by an intense increase in the level of growth hormones circulating through the body during adolescence.
What is a growth spurt
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An elevated glass platform that creates an illusion of depth and is used to test the depth perception of infants.
What is a visual cliff?
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When neurons become incased in this protective substance that speeds transmission
What is myelination?
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