Biological
The only people who share 100% of their genetics.
What are monozygotic (MZ) twins?
Term for the unexplained death of a child under 12 months.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
The process in which children have to alter their schemas to integrate new information.
What is accommodation?
Considered to be a building block for personality development.
What is temperament?
The extent to which someone enjoys novelty and intense sensations.
What is sensation seeking?
Field of study that examines the extent to which genes influence behavior.
What is Behavior Genetics?
The neurological process in which axons become covered in a fatty material to improve the efficiency and speed of information transfer.
What is myelination?
Theory of cognitive development that was inspired by the creation of the computer.
What is the Information-Processing approach?
The most common lab procedure used to measure attachment security in infants.
What is the Strange Situation?
Term describing the finding that children of immigrant families who have spent more time in the US perform worse academically than children of families who immigrated to the US more recently.
What is the "Immigrant Paradox"?
The ideal position for a fetus during labor and delivery.
What is vertex (head first) position?
The region of the brain that controls reward and risk-taking behaviors.
What is the limbic system?
Term in linguistics for children's use of context and background knowledge to learn how to use language.
What is pragmatics?
The two main dimensions of parenting, according to Baumrind.
What is demandingness and responsiveness?
Term describing how media occupies time that could be spent on other activities, such as playing outside.
What is the displacement effect?
Behaviors, environments, and conditions that are potentially harmful to a developing organism.
What are teratogens?
Reflex used to help an infant locate their mother's breast.
What is the rooting reflex?
Belief in adolescence that one's personal experiences are totally unique and no one else can relate to them.
What is the personal fable?
According to Marcia, the term for adolescents who spend very little time exploring their identity before strongly committing to an identity.
What is foreclosure?
Social status associated with children who are highly disliked by others because they are shy, fearful of others, and have low self-esteem.
What is rejected-withdrawn?
Important prenatal supplement that reduces the likelihood of a fetus developing neural tube deficits.
What is folic acid?
The first milk produced after birth, which appears thicker and more yellow.
What is colostrum?
Theory that language influences cognitive development and how people understand the world.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
The name for the phenomenon in which infants cry in response to hearing other infants cry.
What is emotional contagion?
The term used to describe delinquent individuals who begin to demonstrate problems early in life and continue to engage in delinquent behaviors in adulthood.
What is life-course-persistent delinquents (LCPDs)?