In Utero!
The human egg in the first 10 days after fertilization
What is a zygote?
The reflex in which a baby will turn their head when their cheek is stroked to find a source of nourishment
What is the rooting reflex?
The second highest mountain in the world.
What is K2?
A type of behavioural therapy that treats anxieties or specific fears by having people gradually face the thing they fear.
What is exposure therapy?
The stage of development when infants like to throw and drop things to explore their physical environment.
What is the sensori-motor stage?
Between approximately two weeks and 9 weeks, you are an embryo and finally, before birth you are called this.
What is a fetus?
The reflex that is activated when you lower a baby to a surface and their arms and legs spring out.
What is the startle reflex
The largest bird in the world, which can sometimes reach up to 9 feet tall and weigh up to 300 pounds
What is an ostrich?
Therapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic, that aim to increase a person's awareness of their own underlying defenses and traumas.
What are insight therapies?
The stage at which Piaget believed imaginative [pretend] play starts.
What is the pre-operational stage?
The organ that is grown by a pregnant person to nourish and protect the baby.
What is a placenta?
The thing that attaches the baby to the placenta and which falls off 1 - 3 weeks after birth
What is the umbilical cord?
This word means comes from the Greek words meaning "terrible lizard"
What is "dinosaur"?
Listening that involves empathy, echoing, restating, and seeking clarification.
What is active listening?
Piaget's theory of how we use "frameworks" in our mind to organize and build on what we already know.
What is schema theory?
Agents such as viruses or drugs that can potentially harm a developing human in utero.
Teratogens
A condition that can afflict children if their mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
Scandinavia is the collective name for these three countries.
What are Denmark, Sweden, and Norway?
Learning that involves rewards to reinforce behaviour and punishments to weaken them.
What is operant conditioning?
The tasks that Piaget believed could measure what stage of cognitive development a child is at?
What are conservation tasks?
A simple form of learning that is illustrated in utero when a developing human stops responding to a loud noise
What is habituation?
The creation of new brain cells [neurons] in the brain, which is largely [though not completely] accomplished in utero.
What is neurogenesis?
A piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water but is connected to a larger land mass.
What is a peninsula?
A kind of therapy that teaches people to talk back to their self-defeating, negative thoughts.
What is cognitive therapy?
Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen "played the world" in this game which recently ended in his defeat.
What is chess?