Multidisciplinary study of how people change and remain the same over time.
What is Human Development?
100
2. The age that growth is the most rapid.
what is infancy?
100
The term used when infants take cues from their parents to help them assess situations.
What is Social Referencing?
100
At this age humans begin using vowel like sounds such as oooooh (cooing).
What is 2 months?
100
Objects still exist even though you can’t see them.
What is object permanence?
200
Basic forces which shape Development.
What is Biopsychosocial Framework?
200
At this age humans begin using vowel like sounds such as oooooh (cooing).
What is the Moro Reflex?
200
3. Behavior that benefits others, such as comforting someone who appears to be in distress.
What is Prosocial?
200
By this age humans have a vocabulary of around a few hundred words.
What is 2 years of age?
200
Difficulty seeing the world from another’s point of view.
What is Egocentrism?
300
Same individuals are studied over a long period of time, suffers from attrition and is very expensive.
What is a Longitudinal Study?
300
Flexibility that the brain shows during the development of its organization.
What is neuroplasticity?
300
This theory shows that by the age of two it is understood that desires cause behavior.
What is Theory of Mind?
300
By this age children now have acquired a 10,000 word vocabulary.
What is 6 years?
300
Infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (such as seeing and hearing) with physical, motor actions.
What is Sensorimotor Period?
400
The first 22 chromosome pairs in a Zygote.
What are Autosomes?
400
The process in which connections in the brain are eliminated due to being inactive or unused
What is synaptic pruning?
400
The name and type of attachment in which upon the mother leaving the baby cries, then upon the mothers return the baby continues to cry and is difficult to calm back down
What is a resistant attachment?
400
The use of pitch and variation to show meaning.
What is Intonation?
400
Children at this stage become adept at using symbols. However, they cannot yet mentally manipulate information.
What is the Preoperational period?
500
A section of DNA whice code for particular traits.
What is a Gene?
500
Generally, at this age babies are able to sit on their own.
What is 7 months?
500
Children tend to seek out this parent when they are in need of comfort.
What is their Mother?
500
Adds emphasis or shades of meaning to what people say, such as loudness and body language.
What is paralinguistic?
500
A limitation to Preoperational thinking is limiting thought to one aspect of a problem and overlooking other aspects of the problem.