The brain develops an ______________ of synaptic connections but the ones that survive are maintained by experience.
What is an excess?
100
After birth infants show a preference for ___________________________________.
What are human faces?
100
The stage involved with logical thinking, reversible math problems, and being able to tell volume.
What is the concrete operational stage?
100
The study of change occurring throughout the lifespan.
What is development or developmental psychology?
200
The period during prenatal development involving organogenesis.
What is the embryonic period? How long?
200
The reason primitive reflexes are evaluated.
They're seen as developmental milestones that go away in a certain time frame.
200
The stage involving object permanence and schema development.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
200
There are 2 ways to change your schemas.
What is assimilation (using existing schemas to take in new sets of stimuli) and accommodation (schemas' changing as necessary to cope with a broader range of situations)?
300
The fetal period lasts from week ___________________ and involves mostly ________________________________.
What is week 9 - 38 and brain development?
300
Decreased responding to repeated stimuli.
What is habituation?
300
The stage involving symbolic manipulation, pretend play, and measuring amount by length (no volume).
What is the preoperational stage?
300
Puberty is jumpstarted by _______________ and marks the beginning of _______________________.
What are hormones and adolescence?
400
Someone that has multiple DNA signatures.
What is a chimera? How do you know if you are one?
400
When you go to the doctor now, what type of reflexes is the doctor evaluating?
What are survival reflexes? (not including the rooting and sucking reflex which babies are born with but those go away).
400
The part of the preoperational stage where a child thinks you and him/her are thinking the same thing.
What is egocentricism?
400
The period where children learn how to lie, share, and empathize.
What is Theory of mind?
500
The period that establishes the number of zygotes during prenatal development.
What is the germinal period? How long?
500
Describe the language development process for the first 3 years of a child.
What is
1 year = 1 word, 2 year = 2 word (telegraphic or hulk speech), 3 year = 3+ words?
500
The possible reason why abstract thinking occurs in the formal operational stage.
What is the final myelination of the frontal lobe during puberty?
500
The period during which a particular form of learning must occur or you will lose your chance to develop that skill.