Development
The age of which the brain has grown to 80% of the adult size.
What is 4 years old?
The inability to recall memories before the age 3-4.
What is infantile amnesia?
Attachment in other animals such as ducks.
What is imprinting?
When new information is placed into an existing scheme.
What is assimilation?
The sense that takes the longest to develop in infants.
What is vision?
The connections the brain uses to communicate.
What are synaptic connections?
A baby's first type of social interaction where they copy whoever they are looking at.
What is imitation?
What is contact comfort/ physical touch?
The major accomplishment that ends the sensorimotor stage that is characterized by knowing an object exists when it is not is your direct line of sight.
What is object permanence?
What are schemes?
The important structures that are beginning to form between 2 weeks and 2 months while in the womb.
What are organs and internal systems?
The situations that diminish environment and influence development. (LIST 3)
What are poverty, stress, poor nutrition, exposure to toxins, and violence?
When a baby is distressed when their primary caregiver leaves and comforted upon the primary caregiver's return.
What is secure attachment?
The stage where a child can understand logical operations but do not understand abstract or hypothetical thought.
What is the concrete operational stage?
The concept that defines understand how other's perspectives and feelings that influence their behavior.
What is Theory of Mind?
The stage of development from conception to two weeks when the new cells are implanted in the uterine wall.
What is a zygote?
The reasons it takes an infant's vision a year to develop. (LIST 1)
What are practice looking at stimuli, development in the visual cortex, and development of cones in the retina.
When a baby is indifferent when their primary caregiver leaves and indifferent upon the primary caregivers return as long as they are not left entirely alone.
What is insecure attachment?
The stage where a child can think in abstract way, use logic, and understand many view points.
What is the formal operational stage?
When a new scheme is created or a pre-existing scheme significantly altered to fit new information.
What is accommodation?
The concept in which neurons that are used are kept and neurons that are not used are lost.
What is synaptic pruning?
The technique used to study babies based on the idea that babies look at new stimuli longer than known stimuli.
What is the habituation technique?
Example: A father goes to drop his child off at daycare. As the father is leaving, the child cries that he wants to stay with his father. Later, when the father returns the child runs to his father, and tells the father about the day.
What is secure attachment?
The stage where children can symbolically understand something on a surface level but with no use of logic.
What is the pre-operational stage?
Example: Your friend, Julia, got broken up with by her partner today. You and Julia usually go to the mall after school to walk around and talk. You infer that Julia is very upset today and probably does not want to go to the mall. You are acting based on this concept.
What is Theory of Mind?