Intro to Lifespan Development
The name of the discipline that uses scientific study to investigate how people change (and stay the same) across their life span
What is lifespan human development?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital
What are the four lobes of the brain?
A testable prediction about how the world behave; psychologists test this prediction by doing research
What is a hypothesis?
The passing on of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
The stage of labor when contractions start and the cervix dilates
What is the first stage of labor?
A well-developed set of ideas that propose and explanation for observed phenomena that can be used to make predictions about future observations
What is a theory?
The largest part of the human brain
What is the cerebrum?
This approach to psychological research describes what is occurring at a particular point in time
What is descriptive research?
All the genes a person inherits
What is the genotype?
Name of the type of surgery to deliver the baby by being removed through the mother's abdomen
What is a Caesarian Section?
The domain of development that includes the capacity to process information, think, reason, and comprehend what is going on in one’s environment
What is the cognitive domain?
The collection of structures that are involved in processing memory and emotion
What is the limbic system?
This type of research is designed to discover relationships between variables and allow the researcher to predict future events
What is correlational research?
This type of gene is only expressed when it is paired with an identical gene
What is a recessive gene?
This prenatal assessment can check for high sugar level, the presence of too much protein, and other signs that the kidneys aren't functioning correctly
What is a urine test/analysis?
This theory is based on the idea that the field of psychology should focus on observable behavior; this theory suggests that a stimulus in the environment leads to a behavioral response
What is Behaviorism (Learning Theory)?
The lobe that is the executive part of the brain where higher order thinking such as reasoning, planning, problem-solving and organizing happens
What is the frontal lobe?
The specific way a researcher collects, analyzes, and interprets data
What is research design?
The empirical science of how genes and environments combine to generate behavior
What is behavioral genetics?
An organ that develops in the uterus during pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the embryo or fetus via the umbilical cord
What is the placenta?
The idea that the time period (such as the Great Depression) in which we live shapes our experiences is consistent with this term
What is a history graded influence?
This part of the brain is the oldest (from an evolutionary perspective)
What is the hindbrain (lowest part of the brain stem)?
The false belief that changes are due to the manipulation/treatment in an experiment
What is the placebo effect?
This stage of prenatal development begins with conception and ends when the blastocyst/zygote implants into the uterine wall
What is the germinal period of prenatal development?
The type of pain management that relieves pain by blocking most of the feeling and pain in a part (or even all) of the body
What are anesthetics (such as an epidural)?
This theory builds on the idea that the stimuli in the environment lead to behavioral responses; this theory argues that that people observe other people’s behavior and sometimes imitate it (which makes learning a social process)
What is social learning theory?
The concept that each hemisphere of the brain is associated with specialized functions
What is lateralization?
This ethical principal in research states that participants should be fully informed about the nature of the research project before participating in it
What is "don't use deception" or "informed consent"?
The scientific name for identical twins?
What is monozygotic?
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
The question of whether humans play an active role in shaping their development or are at the mercy of uncontrollable forces
What is the Active versus Passive debate?
The part of the brain serves as the memory center
What is the hippocampus?
This type of research involving a time span compares samples that represent a cross-section of the population that vary in age; multiple segments of the population are researched at the same time.
What is cross-sectional research?
An agent or factor that can cause abnormalities in a developing embryo or fetus
What is a teratogen?
A prenatal test in which sounds waves are used to visually examine the fetus
What is ultrasound?
The name psychologists such as Erik Erikson use for a challenge that a person must resolve before they can move on to the next stage of development
What is a psychosocial crisis?
This lobe of the brain is located near the ears and helps us process sound
What is the temporal lobe of the brain?
This type of research uses a questionnaire, which is a list of questions that participants will answer; this questionnaire can be on paper, online, etc.
What is survey research?
The threadlike structure of DNA that is found in most living cells
What is a chromosome?
This is the stage of labor when the fetus passes through the birth canal
What is the second stage of labor?
This theorist is known for developing the psychoanalytic field of psychology
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This part of the brain controls automatic functions such as breathing, digestion, heart rate, etc.
What is the brain stem (which is in the hindbrain)?
This type of research can determine if one factor actually causes something to happen
What is experimental research?
This is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity
What is a gene?
The man for a multi-celled organism between two and eight weeks after fertilization
What is an embryo?
According to Jean Piaget, this cognitive process involves expanding one's framework of knowledge to accommodate the new situation.
What is accommodation?
The sensory relay for the brain
What is the medulla?
The Hawthorne Effect (which is similar to observer bias)
What is the tendency of research participants to respond in certain ways because they know they are being observed?
The prenatal period that lasts from 9 weeks post-conception until birth
What is the fetal period of prenatal development?
A fluid-filled sac that protects and contains the fetus in the uterus
What is the amniotic sac?