Chapter 1
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” This old saying refutes Paul Baltes’s life-span perspective that views development as being:
What is plastic?
Used to identify genetic variations linked to particular diseases.
What is true of the genome-wide association method?
assess brain activity
What is EEG?
"other-conscious” emotions
What are pride OR shame OR guilt?
Process in which nerve cells are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells.
What is myelination?
Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and medical researchers all share an interest in understanding development through the life span. This indicates how development is:
What is multidisciplinary?
New studies using the genome-wide association method have focused on
obesity OR cardiovascular disease OR glaucoma
It can cause brain swelling and hemorrhaging.
What is shaken baby syndrome?
They depend on brain and cognitive development that usually occurs after 12 months of age.
What are self-conscious emotions?
Wrestle, run, race, and push help develop these
What are gross motor skills?
“Individuals are changing beings in a changing world.” Which characteristic of development is reflected in this statement?
What is development is contextual?
Number of protein-producing genes is predicted to be
What is less than 20,000?
cerebral cortex and several structures beneath it
What is forebrain?
Emotion that appears in infants older than six months.
What are pride OR guilt OR embarrassment
Maturational lags in ____ lobe is linked to a lower level of school readiness
What is frontal OR temporal?
_____ include biological processes such as puberty and menopause. They also include sociocultural and environmental processes such as beginning formal education and retirement.
What are normative age-graded influences?
It requires studying DNA from those with and without a particular disease
What is the genome-wide association method?
The cerebral cortex has two _____, each of which is further divided into four _____.
What are hemispheres and lobes?
Emotions are influenced by both _____ foundations and by personal experiences.
What is biological?
Plays a key role in planning and organizing new actions and maintaining attention to tasks
What is prefrontal cortex?
Influences that generally affect a generation—for example, the effect of the Vietnam war on the baby boomers—are considered _____ influences.
What are normative history-graded?
the units of hereditary information and are short segments of DNA
What are genes?
Infants nearly triple their birth weight by the age of
What is one year?
Emotions play important roles in
What is communication?
Three years old always running and jumping around
What is normal behavior for this age?