Prenatal Development
What is the order of prenatal development?
Zygote -> Embryo -> Fetus
Drugs that slow/reduce neural activity and body functions.
depressants
What is the name and stage in which dreams occur?
Stage 5, REM (rapid eye movement)
Organized units of knowledge about objects, events, and actions
schema
Parents submit to their children’s desires, make few demands and use little punishment.
permissive parenting
Lifelong physical and mental abnormalities caused by the mother drinking heavily during pregnancy (such as low birth weight, birth defects, lower intelligence, behavioral problems, and hyperactivity).
What is Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
drugs that excite neural activity and speed up bodily functions (Nicotine, Cocaine).
Stimulants
sleep stage where you see strange lights, hear noises, and feel like you are falling.
what is this called, and in which stage of sleep does this occur?
stage 1, hypnogogic hallucinations
Adding new information to an existing schema
Assimilation
What is the name of the internal clock for the sleep-wake cycle?
Circadian rhythm
Viruses and chemicals that can harm the embryo/fetus during parental development
What is teratogens?
Psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions and senses (LSD, Ecstasy)
Hallucinogens
What sleep disorder causes you to fall asleep randomly throughout the day?
Narcolepsy
describe the findings of the Harry Harlow experiment.
He discovered that monkeys preferred the soft body contact comfort of a cloth mother, over the nourishment of a hard/wire mother.
(feeding is less important to attachment than contact/ comfort)
What is addiction?
Not being able to stop consuming/ using a drug
The order in which babies move (roll over, sit up, crawl walk, run)
Maturation
Developing more and more of a need for a drug to feel the effects. (ex. need more coffee to feel energized)
Tolerance
what sleep disorder causes you to stop breathing while you are asleep?
sleep apnea
A child from a neglectful mother has no reaction when his/her mother leaves or when a stranger enters the room.
Which attachment stye is this?
Insecure/ Avoidant attachment style
Which parenting style imposes harsh rules with no explanation and gives unreasonable punishments?
A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open their mouth and search for food.
What is rooting reflex?
Needing the drug to function normally.
Dependance
What sleep disorder causes you to have a hard time falling asleep?
insomnia
What behavior/ reaction do children with the Insecure-resistant attachment style have?
The child will be distrustful, clingy, and cry when his/her mother leaves the room and when she returns. (Caused by overbearing mothers)
Name and describe one stage of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development.
1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
3. Initiative vs. Guilt
4. Industry vs. Inferiority
5. Identity vs. Role Confusion
6. Intimacy vs. Isolation
7. Generativity vs. Stagnation
8. Integrity vs. Despair