10.5 Human development Review of chapter terms
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lswick on February 9, 2011
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Ch.10 Human Development (AP Psych)
Classes:
Mrs. Swick's AP Psychology Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 identity crisis | An adolescent's concern and decisions about the future and the quest for self-understanding is called the |
| identity foreclosure | Adolescents who have not given serious thoughts to their future but have already made decisions about their futures are said to have |
| identity achievement | Adolescents who have explored various identities and have made their own decisions about the future are said to have |
| identity moratorium | Adolescents who have not explored their future and who have not made any decisions are said to have |
| personal fable | Tragedy will never strike me...I will succeed in all my ambitions..Everyone notices How I look. According to David Elkind these beliefs are part of the adolescents |
| social and emotional | Erick Erikson's ages of development deal with ____ and ___development |
| identity | According to Erickson, the principal conflict in adolescence is |
| infant | Someone in Erickson's age of trust vs. mistrust would be in which age group? |
| young adults | According to Erik Erickson, intimacy vs.isolation is of greatest concern to people in which age group? |
| generativity vs. stagnation | According to Erickson, the major conflict of middle adulthood (late 20s through retirement) is |
| strange situation | Ainsworth developed a test of attachment that involves the mother and infant entering a room with toys.The a stranger enters, the mother and stranger leave the stranger returns, and then finally the mother returns. the responses of the infant are monitored in this ___test. |
| Terror management theory | This theory states that much of our anxiety is caused by our fear of death |
| midlife transition | Someone who sets high goals early in life but does not start working towards them is likely to go through what experience? |
| temperament | People are likely to differ greatly in their tendency to be active inactive, outgoing or reserved. These tendencies are known as ________. |
| authoritative | Children who show self-reliance and self-control, cooperate with others, and generally do well in school are most characteristic of children whose parents have a _____parenting style. |
| authoritarian | Parents who set firm rules for their children, without explaining why those rules are good, and who tend to be cold and distant to their children are known as____parents. |
| acculturation | What term refers to the transition between feeling apart of one culture to completely feeling a part of a new culture |
| 18 | The Strange Situation is no longer useful after about ___months |
| conservation | Children in Piaget's preoperational stage of development lack the concept of |
| concrete-operations | According to Piaget children in this stage have trouble with abstract and hypothetical questions |
| object permanence | An investigator covers a toy and watches whether a child removes the cover to retrieve the toy. The investigator is probably testing whether or not the child has the concept of |
| sensorimotor | Children first appear to gain some concept of self in Piaget's ___stage. |
| formal operations | Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development do people reach last (not until age 11 or later) |
| cross-sectional | To study the effects of age on adult memory, an investigator administers a memory test to a group of college students and then as soon as possible administers the same test to those students' parent and grandparents. This design of this study is best described as |
| habituation | When an infant hears a novel sound, the infant increases its sucking rate. After presentations of the same sound, the sucking rate shows less of a response. This decrease in responding is called ______. |
| longitudinal | An investigation measures the moral reasoning of a group of 12-year-old, and four years later measures their moral reasoning again to determine how it has changes. This is a ____ study. |
| 23 | Human have ___pairs of chromosomes. |
| diet | PKU is an inherited condition that can cause mental retardation. The retardation can be prevents through a special _____. |
| sequential design | A researcher administers a personality test to Group A, age 14, and to Group B, age 16. Two years later, the researcher administers the same test to the participants from group A now age 16, and to Group B, now age 18. The researcher is using what type of design? |
| cohort effect | A ______ is a case in which one group of people differs from another group because the two groups were born in different eras. |
| schema | In Piaget's terminology what is it that sometimes gets assimilated and sometimes gets accommodation? |
| assimilation | According to Piaget, applying an old schema to a new object or problem is called_____ |
| accommodation | According to Piaget, when a child modifies an old schema to fit a new object or problem, they are using the concept of |
| self | A mother puts a red spot on the nose of her infant and places the infant in front of the mirror. Based on the information given in the text, the mother is probably trying to dtermine if the child has acquired the concept of |
| embarassment | When a child begins to show self-recognition they will typically also show ________. |
| preoperational stage | According to Piaget, a little boy who has trouble understanding that his mother is also someone's daughter is in the ______stage. |
| egocentric | The following statement is an examples of what type of thinking "Birds sing so I can hear them." |
| zone of proximal development | In contrast to the views based on Piaget's work, the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky argued that educators should consider a child's _______. |
| reward and punishment | According to Kohlberg, the lowest stage of moral reasoning is one in which people make decsions based on the basis of _____ |
| universal principles | According to Kohlber, the highest stage of moral reasoning is one in which people make their decisions on the basis of _________. |
| Carol Gilligan | Criticized Kohlberg's view of moral development in that it concentrated on one type of moral reasoning (justice) and ignored another approach(caring) |
| biculturalism | If an immigrant to the US is able to alternate between his native culture and that of the United states, he is showing |
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