Chapter 5
What is myelin sheath?
Procedure used to study attachment
What is the strange situation?
Hold between finger and thumb
What is the pincer grasp?
What is the germinal stage?
Bronfenbrenner, systems individual is embedded in
What is microsystem?
Temporary assistance while learning
What is scaffolding?
Genetic basis of personality
What is temperament?
Rapid early neuron growth
What is transient exuberance?
Heart beating, neural tube forming, organ development
What is the embryonic period?
Development is moldable, changeable
What is plasticity?
Learning words quickly but incorrectly
What is fast-mapping?
Does not cry when mom leaves room, does not seek comfort upon return
What is insecure-avoidant attachment?
Learning about the world through infant's own body
What are primary circular reactions?
Harmful substance, ill effect on embryo
What are teratogens?
Variable that is manipulated by researcher
What is the independent variable?
Barrier to logic, focus on one dimension
What is centration?
Child distressed when parent leaves, mad when parent returns
What is insecure-ambivalent attachment?
Cooing and babbling
What is prelinguistic speech?
Scale assesses the newborn
What is the Apgar scale?
What is the dependent variable?
Changing appearance doesn't mean change in nature
What is conservation?
Psychosocial crisis present birth-18 mos
What is trust vs. mistrust?
Baby conducts experiments in outside world
What are tertiary circular reactions?
Infant can survive outside of the womb
What is the age of viability?
Follow different cohorts over time
What is cross-sequential?