HDFS and Human Research
The field is devoted to understanding patterns of both stability and change in people and families from conception until death.
What is Human Development and Family Sciences?
Children birth to two years of age are considered to be in this stage of the Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This is the term for the fertilized egg after conception when it reaches a clump of about 100 cells.
What is a blastocyst?
What is the term for the first milk produced by a mother after birth also referred to as "liquid gold?"
What is colostrum?
This type of attachment is considered the healthiest and characterized by the child becoming upset when their mother left the room and becoming easily calmed down upon their mother's return.
What is secure attachment?
This is what is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
In B.F. Skinner's Operant conditioning theory, this is used to increase a behavior (either desired or not).
What is reinforcement?
This is how many chromosomes we receive from each parent.
What is 23?
These are the 5 S's for soothing an upset baby.
What are swaddling, side or stomach-lying, shushing, swaying, and sucking?
What is attachment in the making?
The type of correlation where as one variable increases, the other variable also increases.
This is the stage of Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development that people in middle adulthood are considered to be in.
What is generativity vs. stagnation?
This structure provides the fetus with nutrients and removes wastes during pregnancy.
What is the placenta?
These are the ABC's of safe sleep.
What are alone, back, and crib?
This is an individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding that is thought to be stable through life and present at birth.
What is temperament?
The study of interactions between living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
This is the layer of the Ecological Systems Theory that looks at how the connections or relationships between the different settings in the microsystem impacts one's development.
What is the Mesosystem?
This is the way a person's genes are expressed in an observable way.
What is phenotype?
This is the white coating on a newborn that protected them from the salty amniotic fluid during pregnancy.
What is vernix?
This is the type of attachment formed from inconsistent caregiving characterized by anxiousness when a caregiver leaves and being resistant to the caregiver when they return.
What is ambivalent attachment?
The type of descriptive study that presents information on an individual(s) in greater detail to make generalizations about the larger population.
What is a case study?
What is the chronosystem?
This is a genetic blood disorder characterized by a decrease in oxygen supply.
What is sickle-cell disease?
This is considered a serious disorder that impairs growth in infancy and early childhood characterized by variable eating and inadequate gains in weight.
What is failure to thrive?
This is the ability to focus on more than one aspect or dimension of a problem or situation (for example, they can understand that the water is the same whether it is poured into a short, wide glass or a tall, narrow glass).
What is decentration?