Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Infancy: Early learning, Motor skills, and Perceptual capacitys
Physical Growth
100
An area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception through adolescence
What is Child Development
100
This variable investigators expect to be influenced by the independent variable
What is Dependent Variable
100
A gene that only appears when not dominated by other genes
What is Recessive Genes
100
an inborn, automatic response to a particular form of stimulation
What is Reflex
100
term given to female hormones
What is Estrogen
200
An orderly, integrated set of statements, that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
What is theory
200
a prediction drawn from a theory
What is Hypothesis
200
A sudden but permanent change in a segment of DNA
What is Mutation
200
(>Daily Double<)
removing a desirable stimulus or presenting an unpleasant one to decrease the occurrence of a response.
(>Daily Double<)
What is punishment
200
term given to male hormones
What is Androgens
300
Qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving in specific, periods of development
What is Stage
300
this variable investigators expect to cause changes in anther variable
What is Independent Variable
300
this stores and transmits genetic information
What is Chromosomes
300
Copying the behavior of another person
What is Imitation
300
Conception of and attitude towards physical apperance
What is Body Image
400
Development that is open to change in response to influential experiences
What is Plasticity
400
refers to the consistency, or repeatability of measures of behavior
What is Reliability
400
the complex blend of genetic information that determines our species and influences all our unique characteristics
What is Genotype
400
A stimulus that increases the occurrence of a response
What is Reinforcer
400
This structure in the brain aids in balance and control of body movement
What is Cerebellum
500
this theory emphasized that how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development.
What is psychosexual theory
500
with repeated testing, participants may become "test-wise." their performance may improve as a result of this effect
What is practice effect
500
from the ninth week to the end of pregnancy, this is the longest prenatal period.
What is Period of the Fetus
500
term for when infants make poorly coordinated swipes towards an object in front of them
What is pre-reaching
500
During this time people attain an adult sized body and become capable of producing offspring