CH1 Lifespan Perspective
This theory has five stages -oral to genital stage.
What is Freud's psychoanalytical theory?
A complex molecules that has a double helix shape and contains genetic information.
What is DNA?
A condition in which an infant stops breathing, usually during the night, & suddenly dies without an apparent cause.
What is SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)?
A stage added to Piaget's cognitive theory which is reflective, relativistic, and contextual; provisional; realistic; and influenced by emotions.
What is the postformal stage?
Chomsky argued that children are born with the ability to detect basic features & rules of language.
What is the LAD (language acquisition device)?
This theory is an environmental theory that focuses on 5 environmental systems- microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, & chronosystem.
What is the Bronfenbrenner ecological theory?
In prenatal development, from conception to about 10-14 days is a time that ends with the zygote attaching to the uterine wall.
What is the germinal period?
The number of years an individual is expected to live when he or she is born.
What is the life expectancy?
Vygotsky's term for the range of tasks that are too difficult for children to master alone but that can be learned with the guidance & assistance of more-skilled adults & peers.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This view emphasizes the contributions of both biology & experience in language development.
What is an interactionist view of language?
A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time.
What is the cross-sectional approach?
Any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive & behavioral outcomes for the child.
What is a teratogen?
The maximum number of years any member of a species has been known to live.
What is life-span?
A teaching technique in which a more skilled-person adjust the level of guidance to fit the child's current performance level.
What is scaffolding?
Adding information to the children's incomplete utterances.
What is expanding?
The category of individuals between 3 and 5 years of age.
What is the early childhood period of development?
In this stage of delivery, the placenta is expelled from the uterus.
What is the third stage of the birthing process?
The theory that the number of times human cells can divide is about 75-80 and as we age we become less able to divide.
What is the cellular clock theory?
That aspect of adolescent egocentrism that involves feeling that one is the center of attention & sensing that one is on stage.
What is imaginary audience?
The region of the left frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in producing words.
What is Broca's area?
Researchers need to guard against gender, cultural, & ethnic bias in research.
What is minimizing bias?
A widely used method to assess the health of newborns at one and five minutes after birth-it measures heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, body color, reflex irritability.
What is the Apgar scale?
The time in middle age, usually in the late forties or earl fifties, when a woman's menstrual periods have ceased for one year.
What is menopause?
The belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities & are capable of action.
What is animism?
A loss of impairment of language processing resulting from damage to that area.
What is an aphasia?