The name for major growth during a short period of time.
What is a "growth spurt"?
100
A child between the ages of one and three.
What is a toddler?
100
A segment of DNA along the length of the chromosome.
What is a gene?
100
Theory of Jean Piaget’s stating that children’s thinking capacities do not improve gradually over time, but rather pass through a series of stages.
What is the theory of cognitive development?
200
According to Erikson significant relationships with parents, friends, and peers start at this stage
What is Initiative vs. Guilt
200
Facial hair develops and the voice deepens during this time period (not adolescence)
What is puberty?
200
Being sure of yourself.
What is confident?
200
The most common chromosomal disorder, occurring 1 out of every 770 live births.
What is Down Syndrome?
200
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, and Formal operational
What are Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
300
Mastering many skills is a key developmental task for this stage
What is Industry vs. Inferiority
300
Teenagers value this characteristic in their friends.
What is loyalty?
300
This stage of aesthetic development is when children only recognize their own artistic experience and have little understanding of other points of view.
What is Favoritism?
300
The number of chromosomal pairs we all have
What is 23?
300
According to Piaget, children younger than this age have an egocentric view of the world.
What is 7 years old?
400
The stage focused on the elderly, where the feeling of life worth living or not having enough time comes into play
What is Integrity Vs. Despair
400
Boys who do this are usually more popular.
What is physically mature earlier than others?
400
Type of play in which toddlers play near, but not with one another.
What is parallel play?
400
If I breed a heterozygous parent with a homozygous recessive parent, these are the odds that the child will be heterozygous.
What is are 2/4 (or 1/2 or 50%)?
400
Direct learning, social transmission, and maturation
What are Piaget’s steps for children moving from one stage of thinking and problem solving to the next?
500
A time with few responsibilities and many opportunities to ask questions and explore different roles. The period of psychosocial moratorium.
What is Identity vs. Identity Diffusion
500
Most girls who mature earlier than others feel this way.
What is insecure or awkward?
500
A stage of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, where good behavior stems from pleasing and helping others.
What is Interpersonal concordance?
500
The phenotype AA is referred to as.
What is dominant?
500
The last stage in Piaget’s developmental theory, in which a child begins to think abstractly and formulate new ideas.