Prenatal Development/ Infance
What is full-term development of a fetus?
What is 40 weeks?
Imagine the cultural/ societal impacts of things like climate disasters, war, pandemics, smartphones. When we study the impact of events like this on people w are studying ___________.
What are COHORT EFFECTS?
A major task beginning in childhood and continuing into adolescence is discerning right from wrong. Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg focused on this theory of ____________ development?
What is MORAL?
A person’s ________is the genetic makeup of that individual.
What is a genotype?
There are ___________ total stages of development?
What is nine?
A ___________ is any environmental agent—biological, chemical, or physical—that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus.
What is a Teratogen?
How many periods of development are there?
Eight
This theory or theorist says that there are eight stages of development and at each one there is a conflict, or task, that we need to resolve. Successful completion of each developmental task results in a sense of competence and a healthy personality. Personality develops throughout our entire life. Failure to master these tasks leads to feelings of inadequacy.
Who is Erikson? What is Psychosocial theory?
A condition when there is ambiguous genitialia in a developing baby is called ____________
What is intersex?
This is defined as tendencies to respond in predictable ways, such as sociability and emotional reactivity, that serve as the building blocks of later personality
What is Temperament?
______________motor skills focus on the muscles in our fingers, toes, and eyes, and enable coordination of small actions (e.g., grasping a toy, writing with a pencil, and using a spoon).
What is FINE?
What are the three domains of development across a lifespan?
What is the physical, cognitive, and social domain?
This theorist focused on children’s cognitive growth. He believed that thinking is a central aspect of development and that our cognitive abilities develop through specific stages. As we progress to a new stage, there is a distinct shift in how we think and reason.
Who is Piaget?
A ________ describes an individual’s observable characteristics, such as hair color, skin color, height, and build.
What is a phenotype?
The average American Newborn weights approx ______ pounds?
What is 7 lbs?
This type of development occurs as children form relationships, interact with others, and understand and manage their feelings. In this type of of development, forming healthy attachments is very important and is the major social milestone of infancy.
What is PSYChO-SOCIAL?
This approach asks, “What is normal development?, whereby psychologists are looking at average ages of when most children reach specific developmental milestones in each of the three domains to determine when most children reach specific milestones.
What is the "normative" approach?
Around 6-8 months old, children develop this. It is the understanding that even if something is out of sight, it still exists. Before this, even young infants do not remember an object after it has been removed from sight.
What is object permanence?
A __________is a sudden, permanent change in a gene. While many of these can be harmful or lethal, once in a while, these could benefits an individual by giving that person an advantage over those who do not have this.
What is a mutation?
Life span development examines the patterns of growth and change in individuals from when to when? __________
What is conception to death?
This is the average age at which babies start walking
What is 10-14 months?
In the case of Genie, the fact that she had challenges to full language capacity, showed the importance of lack of optimal development during______________
What is Critical Periods?
The theory of _________ suggests that neural brain development influences cognitive development. Experiences that a child encounters can impact or change the way that neural pathways develop in response to the environment. An individual’s behavior is based on how one understands the world. An example of this would be a child who may be genetically predisposed to a difficult temperament. They may have parents who provide a social environment in which they are encouraged to express themselves in an optimal manner. The child's brain would form neural connections enhanced by that environment, thus influencing the brain. In other words, cognitive development is not predefined.
What is Neuroconstructivism?
Identical twins are referred to as ______. They develop from the same ________.
What is MonoZygotic?What is an egg?
A newborn's weight typically _________ in size by the time they are one years old?
What is triples?