Development
Agents of a virus or drug introduced to a developing embryo which can cause birth defects are known as this.
What are teratogens?
Sucking, rooting, grasp, are 3 of the 7 different ones of these; They reflect the developing involuntary body movements of newborns.
What are reflexes?
Piaget and Vygotsky studied how children interacted and developed through their environment. Piaget focused on individual thoughts and physical development, while Vygotsky focused on environment and society impact on cognition.
What is cognitive development; and social cognitive development?
This research data is the use opf numerical statistical and other descriptive datasets (Likert scales & Tests)
What is quantitative data?
What are cones and rods?
An existing schema has to change or be modified to allow new information is known as this.
What is Accommodation
This is necessary for fetus to develop a strong brain and spinal cord.
What is folic acid?
Nervous system and muscles developing in which the order is sequential but timing is variable is based on individual and cultural factors.
Reflexes --> gross _____ development & fine _____ development
What is motor development?
First stage of cognitive development according to Jean Piaget. Individuals explore their environment with their senses and physical abilities.
What is sensorimotor stage 1?
When researchers insist on operational definitions in their research methods it increases the study's validity because it can replicated and re-tested; the ability to prove it false is known as this.
What is falsifiable? falsifiability?
Neurons traveling from the brains (CNS)to muscles and glands.
What are efferent or motor neurons?
New information must be changed or adapted to fit the schema is known as this.
What is assimilation?
Discovered at age 13 this child experienced extreme isolation and deprivation of exposure to language. A case study was conducted to see the effects of this extenisve exposure to abuse and neglect on development.
Who is Genie Wiley?
This study looked at how a baby newborn would react to a drop-off "cliff" area while crawling. Study revealed biological readiness to sense depth and spatial relationships.
What is the visual cliff-experiment?
At this stage of cognitive development individuals use can form hypothetical, abstract and logical thoughts.
What is formal operational stage 4?
Multiple studies synthesized into one to determine overall effect size of a related study. These analysis within an analysis is known as this, appropriately.
What is meta-analysis?
Part of the brain involved in controlling most of the sensory inputs.
What is the thalamus?
Predicting future events based on easily recalled or available information is known as this.
What is availability Heuristic?
This suggests the ability to learn languages has an important time period in which the most optimal learning of a language occurs.
What is critical period hypothesis?
The role between genes and environments have on psychosocial and cognitive development is known as this; one refers to biology, the other to environmental factors.
What is nature & nurture?
Animism, egocentrism and difficulty with conservation and lack of reversibility are cognitive obstacles in this stage of development.
What is pre-operational stage 2?
What is a case study?
What is Wernicke's area?
prediction of future events based on existing or experience information is known as this.
What is representative heuritic?
Between 7-12 years of age Jean Piaget says at this cognitive stage of development thoughts of tangible and physical things occur while overcoming cognitive errors of the previous stage.
What is concrete operational?
The ability to understand that others have a different, will, perspective, view from their own.
What is theory of mind?
Part of the brain which allows contralaterlization and communication between brain hemispheres.
What is corpus callosum?
The term related to the maturation process of a newborns perception of when objects or people are no longer within their sight.
What is object permanence?