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31 Cards in this Set
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newborns exhibit what behavior for their survival
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reflexive behavior
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All neurons are present at birth |
true
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the first motor skills are
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reflexes
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the 3 sets of reflexes are
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breating, sucking and rooting
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sensation
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response of a sensory system to a stimulus
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perception
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mental processing of sensory information
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what sense is least developed at birth
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vision; they are near sighted
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at about 14 weeks what type of vision does the invant have
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binocular vision
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color vision is present at birth |
true
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Marasmus
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disease that stops growth, the body tissue wastes away and death can occur
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Piaget's sensorimotor stage in infancy is
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learns to coordinate sensory experiences and motor behavior
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at what age do infants recognize specific characteristics of things in their environment
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4-8 months
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at what age do infants become more responsive to people and objects
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8-12 mos
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schema is
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mental model that infants form to help incorporate the characteristics of persons, objects, events
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___________ gives infants the ability to adapt their behavior
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schemas
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assimilation
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fitting information into their existing schema
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accommodating
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they revise their schemas to fit new information
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object permanence
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wareness that objects which no longer are in view still exist
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reversal
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basic accomplishment of the sensorimotor stage--refilling an empty container
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intermodal perception
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ability to associate information from one sense with another sense
(hearing with seeing) |
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cross-modal perception
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ability to use information from one sense to IMAGINE something in another
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underextend
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applying a word to refer to a narrower category of objects
cat may refer to only family cat |
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overextension
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apply words more broadly than meaning
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separation anxiety emerges at about ______ and peaks at _______
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8 mos
14 mos. |
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stranger wariness is common at what age
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6 months
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at what age do babies respond to themselves in a mirror
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15-24 mos
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3 major categories of temperament are
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extroverted, placid and shy
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extrovertion
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sociability; a general inhibition to unfamiliar objects and expressions
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extroversion/shyness is inherited |
true
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Watson, a behaviorists holds that personality is shaped through _____________ and ___________ by parents
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reinforcements and punishments
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the strange situation demonstrated what 3 theories
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securely attached;
insecurely attached:avoidant insecurely attached:resistant |
