Pre-Midterm Review
This infant reflex is when a baby spreads his or her arms out in reaction to a loud noise or a fall.
What is the Moro Reflex?
Carol Dweck believes that people can be split into these two different mindsets when it comes to learning.
What are fixed and growth mindsets?
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What are incremental and entity theories?
SES is highly correlated with many developmental outcomes.
What is Socioeconomic Status?
The "30 million word gap" describes the language input differences seen between children in different levels of this category.
What is Socioeconomic Status?
When going on a date as new parents, it is important to decide whether or not you will talk about this topic.
What is your baby?
The "Sally-Anne" and "Smarties" tests both try to test for the presence of this trait in children.
What is Theory of Mind?
DeLoache et al. (2010) report that babies' viewing of educational videos have this effect on their learning new vocabulary.
What is no significant effect?
Until around 9-14 months infants strongly prefer CDS over other forms of language input.
What is Child Directed Speech?
Who am I?
"You will occasionally feel anger at your baby. They will drive you crazy." Casey recommends not doing this action in response.
What is shaking your baby?
This phrase describes the process by which rarely used neural connections are removed from the brain during childhood.
What is synaptic pruning?
Schwab and Lew-Williams studied how these two (seemingly separate) things interact and affect language development.
What are socioeconomic status and child directed speech?
fNIRS is used as a non-invasive way to measure brain activity in response to stimuli in many neuro-psychological studies.
What is functional near-infrared spectroscopy?
Haidt found that of five possible moral foundations, conservatives tend to have all five while liberals only have two of five. Which two of the following are those:
Harm/Care; Authority/Respect; Purity/Sanctity; Fairness/Reciprocity; Ingroup/Loyalty
What are Harm/Care and Fairness/Reciprocity?
"At bedtime, kids are tired but not mellow. They’re revved up, dehydrated and antagonistic." This is what Casey recommends as a response.
What is giving your child a hug?
This word describes anything that causes malformations during prenatal development.
What are teratogens?
Saffran (1996) shows that infants are particularly adept at this kind of language learning.
What is statistical?
APGAR tests are used to measure the health of a baby on a 10-point scale at birth.
What are Appearance, Pulse, Grimace/Reflex, Activity, and Respiration?
Mary Ainsworth studied attachment in children, and found that 60% of kids have this optimal kind of attachment.
What is secure attachment?
This is when you should sleep as a parent of an infant.
What is every time your baby sleeps?
Piaget broke development up into these four distinct stages.
What are Sensorimotor, Pre-Operational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational?
Warneken (2006) showed that toddlers (and chimpanzees, to a lesser extent) have an innate desire to do this.
"LENA" digital recorders are used in some studies to listen in to the home life of the families being studied.
What is Language Environment Analysis?
Kohlberg uses these three broad stages to describe the development of morality in children.
What are pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional stages?
What is a stick?