Vocab
Definition: sensitive period during which young animals become strongly attached to a nearby adult
What is imprinting?
What did this study reveal?
3 month old, connected ankle to mobile, when baby kicked their foot the mobile moved, measured how long it took for babies to figure this out - rate of kicking doubles, visited for 15 days, time gets shorter and shorter to figure out this relationship
What is infants possess some type of memory?
What does this apply to...
Bing Bong being forgotten in Inside Out
What is synaptic pruning?
What stage of physical development is this:
called a fetus: no new structures emerge after prenatal month 2, fetus grows larger, stronger, and fatter, and the body organs mature
What is after 2 months?
One factor that can diminish an environment
What is poverty?
Definition: strong emotional connection between people that persists over time and across circumstances
What is attachment?
What is your favorite part of this Chapter so far?
What is (their answer)?
What does this apply to...
Children playing peak a boo and not realizing that the person playing is always there
What is sensorimotor stage (part of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development)
What stage of physical development is this:
zygote firmly implanted in the uterine wall
What is 2 weeks
The genes component of developmental outcome
What is nature?
Definition: the synaptic connections in the brain that are used = preserved. The synaptic connections in the are not used = decay + disappear
What is synaptic pruning?
Harlow's experiment provided what with the study of how a baby monkey went straight to wired milk for food and then to cotton covered one (baby spent way more time with cotton covered mom)
What is imprinting?
How a person changes physically such as their height, natural hair color, etc.
What is gene?
What stage of physical development is this:
called a embryo: organs and internal systems begin to form, exposure to harm (toxins, drugs, extreme stress, or poor nutrition) can have lasting effects on developing organ systems, spinal cord is formed
What is 2 weeks to 2 months?
The sense that takes the most time to fully develop after birth.
What is sight?
Definition: the study of changes (adaptive) that occurs over life in physiology, cognition, emotion and social behavior
What is developmental psychology?
Study that had let babies play with their caregiver present, stranger then comes in and child stares (feels safe) and when stranger plays with child, child goes to mom. Mom then leaves the room and baby starts to cry, stranger tried to comfort baby but doesn’t work. With the reunion (after mom left and came back) baby stops crying,
What is Strange Situation (secure attachment)
What does this apply to...
Children seeing a rock as a pirate ship
What is preoperational stage is Piaget Stages of Cognitive Development?
At what ages does the human brain grow to be about 80% if the adult size?
What is age 4?
The experience component of developmental outcome
What is nurture?
Name the term: way to study how infants categorize objects (like faces) based on the principle of after looking at objects in the same category, babies will look for a longer time at objects in new category
What is habituation technique?
What is this study: child plays with their caregiver present, give child an uncomfortable stimuli, first, stranger comes in and child stares, then mom leaves and baby just looks, baby plays with new toy and stranger (no visible discomfort), with the reunion - baby doesn’t really react, with no adults - baby cries out, when stranger comes and tries to calm the baby down and it worked, when mom comes back and stranger leaves - baby cries
What is Strange situation (insecure attachment)
How a person's experience with dancing when they were younger helped them to become a professional ballet dancer.
What is nurture?
What is the difference between secure and insecure attachment (goes with emotional development) down the road?
What is secure attachment is related to better socioemotional functioning when insecure attachments have been linked to poor outcomes later in life?
Define this: understanding that an object continues to exist even when it cannot be seen
What is object permanence?