Research, yes!
Name the (3) research designs discussed in chapter 1.
What are descriptive, correlational and experimental research.
p31
Babies are born with a big head.
The concept that we grow from the top down is called _____ pattern.
What is cephalocaudal.
Erickson's Psychosocial Theory of Development involves how many stages.
What are 8.
The match between a child's temperament and the environmental demands that the child must cope with is called this.
What is Goodness of Fit.
During the first _________ decades of life, growth and development are most dramatic.
What is two.
Dr. Manning wants to conduct an in depth study on Charles Manson only. What is the method she is using for data collection?
What is case-study.
p28
The book states that breastfeeding is still the most best approach to nourishing babies. However there are instances when breastfeeding is not recommended.
They include when the mother has active TB, is taking unsafe drugs, or _____.
_______________ is the effect which occurs due to the time in which a person lived or experienced.
What is cohort effects.
In Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, the four stages are this.
What are sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage.
p20
We understand that development is a pattern of change which occurs across our life span.
In what (3) processes (or ways) does development occur?
What are biological, Cognitive, and socioemotional processes.
What is the cross-sectional approach.
When babies cry, we separate them into 3 categories, including basic, anger and ___.
What is pain.
The theory that children construct their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive development.
What is Piaget's Theory.
This is the part (area) of left hemisphere of the brain that is involved in understanding language.
What is Wernicke's Area.
We all age, this is inevitable.
Name the other 3 types of aging.
What are Biological aging, psychological aging, social aging.
Which variable, dependent or independent, is manipulated by the researcher in a study?
Independent variable
p32
What is 25%.
This sociocultural cognitive theory emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development.
What is Vygotsky's Theory.
p21
This genetic disorder is prominent in the Jewish descent and is characterized by the bodies inability to process fats.
What is Tay-Sachs disease
Messages are received from this part of the neuron.
What are the Dendrites.
There are 4 principles the APA stresses should be in place for research to be ethical.
They include informed consent, deception, debriefing, and ___________.
What is confidentiality.
In infancy, emotions play two important roles. These emotions can be positive or negative.
The two roles are communication with others and this.
This theory emphasizes that individual's manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it. What is this theory called?
p22
Adult vision is 20/20, what is a newborns?
What is 20/600.
This subspecialty of psychology emphasizes the importance of adaptation, reproduction and survival of the fittest in shaping behavior.
What is evolutionary
Dr. Manning wants to conduct a study where she observes how perception and sensation affect college nursing students. She wants to ensure her observations do not effect the environment. What kind of method is this called?
What is naturalistic observation
The three periods of prenatal development are these
What are germinal, embryonic, and fetal.
What is longitudinal.
How many types of attachment are discussed?
What are four.
Secure, avoidant, resistant and disorganized.
p132
The four lobes of the human brain are occipital, parietal, frontal and ________.
What is temporal.