Chapter 2: Developmental Theories & Contexts
Who is typically considered the founding father of cognitive-developmental theories?
Who is Piaget?
When into a woman's cycle does ovulation typically occur?
What is 14 days?
Neonates spend 50% of their sleep in _______ because it helps with their brain development, learning, mood, and memory.
What is REM (rapid eye movement)?
According to Thomas and Chess, infants have three types of temperaments: easy, difficult, and _____ __ ___ ___.
What is slow to warm up?
The first step of the scientific method is...
What is 'identify a research question'?
How many stages does Erikson's psychosocial theory have?
What is 8?
Blue Ivy's sucess as a young performer is likely due to which genotye - environment interaction (passive, evocative, or active)?
What is passive?
What is colic?
When Samara is working on her laptop, her baby sister has looks at the screen and points at the things she sees Samara looking at. What is this type of attention called?
What is joint attention?
Evan is an artist and musician. He has always been very creative. According to pseudoscience, which hemisphere of Evan's cerebral cortex is thought to be more dominant?
Infancy and adolescence are both considered "windows of opportunity" for learning because the brain is especially malleable during these stages. In other words, they are considered _____ periods.
What is sensitive?
Sickle cell anemia and wavy hair are both examples of _________ __________
What is incomplete dominance?
What happens during the third stage of birth?
What is 'expelling the placenta'?
This experiment is used to understand infants' development of depth perception.
What is the visual cliff?
The average number of children per family is currently at it's lowest ever. As a result, Trump and other conservative officials are pushing the ______ movement.
What is pronatalism?
Little Harrison watches a lot of TV with violence. His teachers tell his parents that he has started fighting with his classmates more recently. Which theory best explains his increase in aggression as a result of watching violent TV?
What is social learning theory?
During which stage of prenatal development does most of a fetus' major organs form (germinal, embryonic, or fetal)?
What is the embroynic stage (3-8 weeks gestation)?
What is a commonly recommended strategy to increase the weight of preterm/low birth-weight neonates?
During the first year of life, communication between neurons becomes faster and more efficient due to ______ and _______ _______
What is myelination and synaptic pruning?
What is fetal personhood?
What is "the idea that fetuses should have the same legal rights and protections as persons"?
Bronfenbrenner is famously known for the bioecological theory, which posits that human development is shaped by five interrelated systems in the social environment. We read an article revising his theory by portraying _____ as existing within/across different settings, unlike the original theory which places it only in the macrosystem.
What is culture?
What is the main reason it is extremely dangerous to give birth at 24 weeks or earlier?
What is 'babies lungs are not fully developed'?
What is 75%?
Proximodistal principle is an infant growth pattern meaning that growth begins at the _______ and proceeds _____ .
What is middle and outward?
What is the name of the supreme court ruling of 2022 that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade?
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?