Ch 1- Intro
Changes with age occur gradually in small increments
Continuous Development
The trimester when the embryo is formed
1st trimester
Threadlike structures made up of DNA
Chromosomes
Knowledge that people accumulate over their lifetime
Long-term Memory
decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations
Habituation
Which correlation is stronger? -0.67 or 0.42
-0.67
A substance that can negatively alter development
Teratogen
the dense tract of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres
Corpus Callosum
The range of tasks too difficult for a child to do alone but can be learned with help from a more experienced person
Zone of proximal development
Movements using small groups of muscles
Fine Motor Skills
The group of children in an experiment that are not given the experience of interest but are still treated similarly
Control Group
The process in which neurons move from their place of origin to their final locations
Neural Migration
Young children's unwillingness to eat unfamiliar foods
Food neophobia
Piaget believed this stage was not universal
Formal Operational Stage
When a pen is placed in an infant's hand they wrap their hand around the pen. This is an example of?
The grasping reflex
The degree to which results can be generalized beyond the particulars of the research
External Validity
Premature babies
Changes in physical development that have occurred over generations
Secular trends
The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension
Seriation
Tommy tries to sit in his toy car. This is an example of
Scale errors
A researcher wants to study how children's emotional regulation changes over time from pre-school to the end of elementary school. What type of study should the researcher conduct?
Longitudinal
In a 24 hour period infants spend the least amount of time in which state of arousal
Drowsing
Aaron played in the World Cup and he recently just had a child. He bought his child a soccer ball for their first birthday and can't wait to sign them up for a soccer team when they are older. This is an example of?
Passive heredity-environment correlation
Sonia has to sleep with her stuffed rabbit every night because if she doesn't her rabbit will get sad and lonely. Sonia is in which stage of cognitive development?
Preoperational Stage
Lillie gets a piece of candy every time she does the dishes. Now she does the dishes every night. This is an example of ?
Operant (Instrumental) Condtioning