Chapter 1
Psychologist with 8 psychosocial stages.
Who is Erik Erikson?
The basic units of heredity.
What is a gene?
First stage of prenatal development, from conception to implantation.
What is the germinal period?
At birth the brain weights about _______ of its adult weight.
What is 25%?
The process by which species change across generations.
What is evolution?
Refers to changes in a person's thought, physical structure, and behavior due to biology and experience.
What is human development?
The number of chromosome pairs humans have.
The last and longest stage of prenatal development.
What is the fetal period?
A newborn evaluation method performed by hospitals.
What is Newborn Behavioral Observation (NBO)?
Caused by an insufficient amount of food or by eating food low in nutritional value.
What is malnutrition?
A study that tracks the same people over time.
What is a longitudinal study?
The process by which reproductive cells are formed.
What is meiosis?
Diseases, chemicals, or other toxic agents that can harm the fetus.
What are teratogens?
______ still accounts for about 30% of all infant deaths after 1 month of age.
What is SIDS?
An alteration in the cell's DNA.
What is mutation?
Researchers must obtain this to protect participants.
What is informed consent?
Different conditions that can result from problems in an individual's DNA.
What is a genetic disorder?
Alcohol use in pregnancy can cause this syndrome.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
______ is necessary for development of healthy teeth and bones.
What is calcium?
The translation of external stimulation into neural impulses.
What is sensation?
Bandura's famous doll study on aggression.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
Alternate versions of genes that perform the same function.
What is an allele?
Newborn health test scored on a 10-point scale.
What is the Apgar test?
Children begin to acquire new vocabulary during this period.
What is the language explosion?
Caused by a parasite that can be passed from mother to fetus.
What is Toxoplasmosis?