Research
What are the four ethical guidelines
Minimize risk
Describe the research to potential participants so they can determine whether or not they want to be part of the study
Avoid deception
Results should be anonymous
Theory of mind
children understand that other people have different beliefs and values different from theirs
Stroke foot and toes fan-out
Babinski
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
caused by alcohol
Who are the pioneers of development psychology and what did they do?
Charles darwin: described his son’s infancy
G. Stanley Hall: founded the academic discipline
Alfred Binet: developed first IQ test - Stanford Vine Test
Sigmund Freud: psychoanalysis
Jimmy is not easy to soothe, fearful, and is mostly shy around people. How would Thomas and Chess describe him?
Negative Affect
Which sense is the last to develop?
Vision
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
baby dies out of nowhere
better for babies to sleep in hard surfaces
Describe the three controversies
Nature: bio
Nurture: environmental
Continuous: development happens in a straight line
Stages: everyone goes thru development at different times
Active: have to do something
Passive: you don’t have to do anything
The forces of developmental psychology
Biological
Psychological
Sociocultural
What part of the brain regulates personality?
frontal cortex
Sarah is small for a 3-year-old, what would be the main factor?
malnourished
what did they use to study infants' depth perception?
visual cliff
What’s the difference between Life Span Perspective and Life Course Perspective?
Life Span focuses on all 4 biological forces
Life Course focuses on age, psycho, sociocultural, life cycle
Alex is able to walk by herself. How old is she in months?
15 months old
If Dave's mother was depressed during pregnancy, what would be Dave's NBAS score?
low score
Create an example of a longitudinal or cross-sectional design
Longitudinal: one group of people are tested over time
Cross-sectional: different age groups are tested at the same time
Explain Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model
Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory: human development is inseparable from the environmental contexts in which a person develops
Macrosystem: cultures and subcultures
Exosystem: social settings
Mesosystem: how others influence each other
Microsystem: primary influences
Turner's syndrome symptoms/description is ______ and the only X chromosome is _______
phenotype; genotype
blood flow is interrupted and the infant doesn't get air
hypoxia