CH 1 Lifespan Perspective
This type of development covers the period from conception to death.
What is lifespan development?
A branch of psychology that emphasizes the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in shaping behavior.
What is evolutionary psychology?
The sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities.
What is proximodistal growth?
In Piaget's theory, actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.
What are schemes?
A form of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, that is based on a system of symbols.
What is language?
This kind of development is the same for all individuals of a particular age group: puberty or menopause.
What are normative age-graded influences?
This is the specialized form of cell division that occurs to form eggs and sperm (gametes).
What is meiosis?
A girl's first menstrual period.
What is menarche?
Piagetian concept in which children use existing schemes to incorporate new information.
What is assimilation?
The ability to produce & comprehend and endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words & rules.
What is infinite generativity?
The view of development as being lifelong, multidimensional, plastic, multidirectional, multidisciplinary, & contextual.
The field that seeks to discover the influence of heredity & environment on individual differences in human traits & development.
What is behavioral genetics?
The midlife transition during which fertility declines.
What is the climacteric?
Piagetian term for when children understand that objects continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched.
In the middle of the first year of life, children produce strings of consonant-vowel combinations, such as ba, ba, ba, ba.
What is babbling?
The behavior, patterns, beliefs, & all other products of a group of people that are passed on from generation to generation.
What is culture?
Children inherit genetic tendencies from their parents and parents also provide an environment that matches their own genetic tendencies.
What is a passive heredity-environment correlation?
The generation of new neurons.
What is neurogenesis?
The 2nd Piagetian development stage (2-7 years) is when children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings.
What is the preoperational stage?
The use of short, precise words without grammatical markers such as articles, auxiliary verbs, etc.
What is telegraphic speech?
This refers to a person's position within society based on occupational, educational, and economic characteristics.
What is a socioeconomic status (SES)?
This is all of a person's actual genetic material.
What is a genotype?
The hormone associated with boys with the development of genitals, increased height, & deepening of the voice.
What is testosterone?
In the last Piagetian developmental stage (adolescents through adulthood), adolescents start to reason in more abstract, idealistic, and logical ways.
What is the formal operational stage?
First words are spoken, in most cases.
What is 13 months?