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Who said people are active contributors to their development?
Piaget.
BLANK is the genetic material an individual inherits.
Genotype
Formation of first neurons in prenatal development is knowns as ...
neurogenesis
How many stages are there in Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development?
4
Rehearsal, chunking, elaboration, repetition are examples of
memory strategies
what is generation of people born at the same time.
cohort
The form of the gene that is expressed if present is known as the ...
dominant allele
____________ is the brain’s capacity to change its organization and function in response to experience
Plasticity
What are the 4 stages of Piaget's Cognitive Theory?
Sensory-Motor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational, Formal operational.
What is the process of representing in memory information specific features of objects and events.
encoding
Name the 2 psychoanalytic theories.
Freud’s Psychosexual Theory
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
What refers to all the phenotypes that could theoretically result from a given genotype, in relation to all the environments in which it could survive and develop?
Range of reaction.
When the brain depends on experiencing certain basic events and stimuli at key points in time in order to develop normally.
experience-expectant brain development
concepts, ideas, and ways of interacting on the world.
schema
Self-control, self-monitor, emotional control, organization, task initiation, planning/time management, working memory, flexibility are known as what?
Executive Function skills
this is when individuals and the environment interact and influence each other.
reciprocal determinisim.
The MAOA gene is associated with ...
aggression.
When the limbic system (responsible for emotion) undergoes burst of development before prefrontal cortex (responsible for judgment)
the dual-process model
Refers to the range of performance between what children can do unsupported and what they can do with support. The outer layer is too challenging; the inner layer is too easy; the mid-layer is JUST right.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development.
What is the first part of the information processing system?
Sensory memory. Holds incoming sensory stimuli in its original form.
Who thought development is result of interactions among biological, cognitive, and psychological changes within person and their changing context?
Brofenbrenner. (Bioecological systems theory).
The science concerned with how variation in behavior and development results from the combination of genetic and environmental factors.
Behavioral Genetics.
BLANK is the sense our brain makes of the stimulus and our awareness of it.
Perception
When infants are able to uncover a toy hidden behind a barrier yet when they observe the toy moved from behind one barrier to another, they look for toy in first place it was hidden.
A not B task/error
BLANK is children’s awareness of their own and other people’s mental processes. Measured with False-belief tasks.
Theory of Mind