Development
Newborn Development
Cognitive & Social Cognitive Development
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Agents of a virus or drug introduced to a developing embryo which can cause birth defects are known as this. 

What are teratogens?

100

Sucking, rooting, grasp, are 3 of the 7 different ones of these; They reflect the developing involuntary body movements of newborns. 

What are reflexes?

100

Piaget and Vygotsky studied how children interacted and developed through their environment. Piaget focused on individual thoughts and physical development, while Vygotsky focused on environment and society impact on cognition. 

What is cognitive development; and social cognitive development?

100

This research data is the use opf numerical statistical and other descriptive datasets (Likert scales & Tests)

What is quantitative data?

100
The receptors found in the retina. 2 of them.

What are cones and rods?

100

An existing schema has to change or be modified to allow new information is known as this. 

What is Accommodation 

200

This is necessary for fetus to develop a strong brain and spinal cord.

What is folic acid?

200

Nervous system and muscles developing in which the order is sequential but timing is variable is based on individual and cultural factors. 

Reflexes --> gross _____ development & fine _____ development 

What is motor development?

200

First stage of cognitive development according to Jean Piaget. Individuals explore their environment with their senses and physical abilities. 

What is sensorimotor stage 1?

200

When researchers insist on operational definitions in their research methods it increases the study's validity because it can replicated and re-tested; the ability to prove it false is known as this. 

What is falsifiable? falsifiability? 

200

Neurons traveling  from the brains (CNS)to muscles and glands.

What are efferent or motor neurons?

200

New information must be changed or adapted to fit the schema is known as this.

What is assimilation?

300

Discovered at age 13 this child experienced extreme isolation and deprivation of exposure to language. A case study was conducted to see the effects of this extenisve exposure to abuse and neglect on development. 

Who is Genie Wiley?

300

This study looked at how a baby newborn would react to a drop-off "cliff" area while crawling. Study revealed biological readiness to sense depth and spatial relationships.

What is the visual cliff-experiment?

300

At this stage of cognitive development individuals use can form hypothetical, abstract and logical thoughts.

What is formal operational stage 4?

300

Multiple studies synthesized into one to determine overall effect size of a related study. These analysis within an analysis is known as this, appropriately. 

What is meta-analysis?

300

Part of the brain involved in controlling most of the sensory inputs. 

What is the thalamus?

300

Predicting future events based on easily recalled or available information is known as this. 

What is availability Heuristic?

400

This suggests the ability to learn languages has an important time period in which the most optimal learning of a language occurs. 

What is critical period hypothesis?

400

The role between genes and environments have on psychosocial and cognitive development is known as this; one refers to biology, the other to environmental factors. 

What is nature & nurture? 

400

Animism, egocentrism and difficulty with conservation and lack of reversibility are cognitive obstacles in this stage of development.

What is pre-operational stage 2?

400
In depth study of a group of newborns who were born in noisy hospitals (nearby construction) and the effect, if any, on audition stimulations at birth with cognitive development. Pro: Potentially uncover universal truths of behavior and development Con: lacks generalizability

What is a case study?

400
Known to be involved in language processing and understanding. 

What is Wernicke's area?

400

prediction of future events based on existing or experience information is known as this. 

What is representative heuritic?

500

Between 7-12 years of age Jean Piaget says at this cognitive stage of development thoughts of tangible and physical things occur while overcoming cognitive errors of the previous stage. 

What is concrete operational? 

500

The ability to understand that others have a different, will, perspective, view from their own. 

What is theory of mind?

500

Part of the brain which allows contralaterlization and communication between brain hemispheres. 

What is corpus callosum?

500

The term related to the maturation process of a newborns perception of when objects or people are no longer within their sight.

What is object permanence? 

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