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Lifespan Development
Prenatal Development
Birth and the Newborn Infant
Infancy
Preschool Years
100
This field of study examines the patterns of growth, change, and stability in human behavior across the lifespan.
What is Lifespan Development?
100
The fact that human traits are determined by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
What is multifactorial transmission?
100
This terms means that during delivery there was a restriction of oxygen, lasting only a few minutes, but that can produce long term cognitive deficits.
What is anoxia?
100
The growth principal that states development proceeds from the center of the body outward.
What is proximodistal principle?
100
Climbing the stairs is an example of this type of motor skill.
What is a gross motor skill?
200
The fact that adults have a harder time learning a new language compared to young children is an example of this key issue is development.
What is critical versus sensitive periods?
200
Genetically identical twins
What are monozygotic twins?
200
These are infants that are born prior to 38 weeks after conception.
What is a preterm infant or premature infant?
200

This approach to perception considers how the information that is collected by various individual sensory systems is integrated and coordinated.

What is the multimodal approach to perception?

200

This terms describes the fact that the two halves of the brain become increasingly differentiated and specialized.

What is lateralization?

300

This term implies environmental influences impacting development.

What is nurture?

300

June is a "natural athlete." Her parents have filled her room with soccer balls, basketball nets, and similar sports related items. This is an example of how genes can influence the ________.

What is the environment?

300
Unlearned, organized, involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of certain stimuli.
What are reflexes?
300

The correct temporal order of physical development.

What is reflexes, gross motor skills, fine motor skills?

300

Piaget's stage of development during the preschool years during which he believes children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.

What is the preoperational stage?

400

Erik Erikson's Theory of Development

What is psychosocial development?

400

This is an an environmental agent such as a drug, chemical, virus, or other factor that produces a birth defect.

What is a teratogen?

400

The ability to hear and discern certain sounds refers to the newborns _________ competence.

What is sensory?

400

According to Piaget, this is the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking.

What is Assimilation?

400

This type of memory involves memory from one's own life. It grows and becomes increasingly accurate as children age.

What is autobiographical memory?

500

The developmental theorist known for operant conditioning.

Who is BF Skinner?

500

A disorder produced by the presence of an extra chromosome on the 21st pair.

What is Down Syndrome?

500

This is a period of deep depression following a birth of a child. Infants respond poorly to mothers who are in this depressed and withdrawn state.

What is postpartum depression?

500

According to Piaget this is the first stage of cognitive development?

What is the sensori-motor stage.

500

Piaget considered language to be an application of this important development.

What is symbolic function?