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41 Cards in this Set
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When does fetus get feeling in mouths?
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7 weeks
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When does fetus get feeling in hands and feet?
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11 weeks
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When does fetus have feeling all over skin?
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20 weeks
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Kisilevsky et al. - at what age could fetuses detect vibrotactile stimulation?
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29 weeks
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When do taste buds appear in fetus?
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12 weeks
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When does fetus have a full contingency of taste buds?
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6 months
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What are 3 important considerations of motor development?
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the start, the end, and the trajectory
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In Berger's narrow/wide bridge experiment, which toddlers were most likely to attempt to and succeed at crossing?
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Those with a higher baseline footstep length.
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What are three ways to explain the reason young children fail at object permanence tests?
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A not B phenomenon, short attention span, underdeveloped memory
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Information Processing
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A perspective in understanding children’s thinking - identify the flow of processing to determine intervention if necessary
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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Research from psych, bio, neuro, and med to study the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing child’s cognitive processes and behavioral patterns
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Ethology
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The adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary history
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Sensitive Period
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The biologically optimal for certain capacities and emerge because the individual is especially responsive to environmental influences
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Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
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Seeks to understand the adaptive value of species-wide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as they change
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Sociocultural Theory
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Vygotsky – How culture is transmitted to next generation (undergo stages)
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Ecological systems theory
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Views the child as developing with a system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment
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Microsystem
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Bronfenbrennen – innermost level of the environment – interaction & activities in child’s immediate surroundings
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Mesosystem
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Connection between Microsystems
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Exosystem
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Social settings that do not contain children but nevertheless affect children’s experiences in immediate settings
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Macrosystem
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Cultural values, laws, customs, and resources
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Chronosystem
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Life changes can be imposed on the child or can arise from child
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Dynamic Systems Perspective
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Mind, body, and physical and social changes from integrated system that guides materialization of new skills
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Maturational Theory
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Child development reflects a specific and prearranged schema or plan with the body (Gesell)
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Ethological Theory
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Views development from an evolutionary perspective
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Psychodynamic Theory
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Development is largely determined by how well people resolve conflicts they face at different ages
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Psychosocial Theory
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Development comprises a sequence of stages defined by a crisis or challenge
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Classical Conditioning
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Pavlov
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Operant conditioning
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Reinforcement and Punishment (Skinner)
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Social Cognitive Theory
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Bandura
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Self-efficacy
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Belief about own abilities and talents
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Cognitive-Developmental Perspective
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Focuses on how children think and on how their thinking changes over time (Piaget)
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Teratogens
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Alcohol, radiation, pollution, disease, maternal factors
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FAS - 3 symptoms
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slow growth, 3 facial abnormalities, brain injury
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p-FAS - 2 symptoms
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2/3 facial abnormalities, brain injury
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ARND
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alcohol related neurobiological disorder
3 areas of mental functioning imparied, otherwise normal |
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Why is low birth weight risky? What are the qualifications for low, very low, and extremely low birth weight?
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lungs not fully developed
5.5lbs 3.3lbs 2.2lbs |
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How well can baby see at birth? When does a child have normal, adult vision?
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20/600, 5years.
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Which senses are well developed by the time of birth? Are they capable of intermodal perception and constancy?
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hearing, taste, smell, touch; yes
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According to Doherty et al., why does it seem as though a low-level, pre-attentive process takes longer to develop than many higher level capabilities?
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the use of pictorial cues is underdeveloped - possibly of an underdeveloped ventral stream; underdeveloped ability to perceive 3D scenes in 2D
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Describe object permanence at:
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-does not search for object -hidden from view
-retrieves partially concealed objects -A not B error -searches for objects where last seen -object permanence |
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What was Topal's contribution to the A not B error argument?
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that social cues play a role in the testing of A not B error.
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