Physical Development

Front 1

What age is a newborn's visual acuity close to normal adults?

Back 1

6 months

Front 2

In terms of hearing, newborns are only slightly less sensitve to ______ than adults and auditory ____ is evident following birth but seems to go away b/n 2 nd 4 mths and then improves during the rest of 1st year.

Back 2

sound intensity
localization

Front 3

While the lower centers of the brain are sufficiently developed at birth to control life maintaining reflexes, the ______ is almost completley undeveloped.

Back 3

cerebral cortex

Front 4

At age 30 the brain begins to shrink as a result of

Back 4

neurons

Front 5

By age ______, about 50% of children use the toilet during the day; by age ________ most children are completely toilet-trained.

Back 5

2 years,
3 years

Front 6

Beginning in adolescence, the disparity b/n boys and girls widen in terms of

Back 6

motor

Front 7

According to Piaget, adaptation reflects two complentary processes: ______ involves incorporating new info into existing schemas, while __________ entails modifying existing schemas to incorporate new information

Back 7

assimilation and accomodation

Front 8

Piaget distinguished b/nn 4 stages of development that occur in an invariant sequence: During the _______ stage, thought is based on action. A major accomplishment of this stage is the development of ________ permanence

Back 8

sensorimotor
object relation

Front 9

Piaget's preoperational stage begins with the emergence of the ________ (representational thought), which enables a child to use a symbol, object, gesture or word to stand for something.

Back 9

semiotic function

Front 10

Children in Piaget's stage are capable of mental operations such as reversibility and decentration, which underlie the ability to __________.

Back 10

concrete operational
conserve

Front 11

Finally, Piaget's _________ stage is characterized by the ability to think abstractly, relativistically, and hypothetically.

Back 11

formal operations

Front 12

The information processing approach also views cognitive development as a function of both __________and experience but focuses more on specific cognitive processes and views cognitive ability as ________________

Back 12

maturation
task

Front 13

Vygotsky's theory emphasizes the importance of the zone of __________, while Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory describes cognitive development as involving interactions at four levels: microsystem, _________, exosystem and macrosystem.

Back 13

proximal development
mesosystem

Front 14

microsystem


mesosystem

Back 14

the face2face relationships between the personn and immediate environment

Hint 14

the interrelationships between the major settings in which the person participates

Front 15

exosystem


macrosystem

Back 15

composed of social structures that impinge upon or encompass the person's immediate settings

Hint 15

refers to the ideologies, customs, values and so on of the person's culture and subculture.