Physical Development
A fertilized egg that has not implanted in the uterus
What is a zygote?
Parents that have few rules or consequences
What is permissive?
The knowledge that things continue to exist even when you cannot see them
What is object permanence?
The first year of life when an infant learns if they world is safe & predictable
What is Trust v. Mistrust?
Branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout life
What is developmental psychology?
The gradual rise in IQ scores over the past 100 years
What is the Flynn Effect?
Tests that measure a person's intellectual capacity and potential to learn.
What is aptitude test?
Harmful substances that can damage a developing fetus or embryo
What are teratogens?
Parents who are strict & demand absolute obedience
What is authoritarian?
Stage when children are capable of abstract & hypothetical thinking
What is formal operational?
Final stage when the elderly evaluate their lives and choices
What is Integrity v. Despair?
When an infant's foot is stroked their toes fan out
What is babinski reflex?
Facts, skills & lifetime knowledge that tends to increase with age
What is crystalized intelligence?
Preventing certain groups for reproducing because they have traits considered undesirable
What is eugenics?
Sexual maturation when a person becomes capable of reproduction
What is puberty?
Animals bond with the first thing they see after hatching
What is imprinting?
The amount of something is consistent even if the shape of a container changes
What is conservation?
Cultivating a sense of self during the teen years
What is identity v. role confusion?
A test has consistent results
What is reliable (or reliability)?
People with an exceptionally high intellect & high creativity
What is giftedness?
when concern that group membership will negatively affect test scores & performance suffers
What is stereotype threat?
Characteristics that indicate sexual maturity but not needed for reproduction
What are secondary characteristics?
Study that showed the importance of contact comfort in bonding with monkeys
What is cloth mother (or wire mother or something similar)
Children's tendency to give life-like qualities to non-living things
What is animism?
Someone with a limited intellectual capacity but has a strong skill in one area
What is savant syndrome?
The test that measured the "mental age" of French school children for public school
What is the Stanford-Binet?
Uniform procedures to administer a test and a baseline for scoring
What is standardization?
When an infant is touched on the cheek, they turn toward it & open their mouth
What is rooting?
Piaget's first stage when infants are exploring the world through putting things in mouth
What is sensorimotor?
Timeframe when a skill must be acquired, if it isn't, chances are it won't be
What is a critical period?
Early theory that intelligence has a single underlying factor that makes smart people good at most things
What is g-factor (or general intelligence)?