Psychology chapter 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Developmental Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies the physical, mental, and social changes throughout the life span |
| Zygote | fertilized egg, enters a 2 week period of rapid development, develops into an embryo |
| embryo | the developing human organism from 2 weeks through 2nd month |
| fetus | the develop human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth |
| Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm |
| reflexes at birth | rooting sucking gag startle babinski |
| preferences at birth | human voices and face like images, smell and sound of the mother |
| schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
| assimilation | interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
| accommodation | adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |
| Birth to nearly 2 years | Sensorimotor Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing) Object permanence Stranger anxiety |
| about 2 years to 6 years | Preoperational Representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning Pretend play Egocentrism Language development |
| about 7 to 11 years | Concrete operational Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations Conservation Mathematical transformations |
| about 12 through adulthood | Formal operational Abstract reasoning Abstract logic Potential for moral reasoning |
| conservation | the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects |
| ego-centrism | the inability of the preoperational child to take anothers point of view |
| attachment | an emotional tie with another person shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation |
| what kind of parenting has the effect of strong attachment type | responsive |
| authoritative | provides rules and consequences, have empathy |
| Crystallized Intelligence | one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills tends to increase with age |
| Fluid Intelligence | ones ability to reason speedily and abstractly tends to decrease during late adulthood |
| social clock | the culturally preferred timing of social events marriage parenthood retirement |
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