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Developmental Psych |
examines physical, cognitive, and social development across a life span |
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Zygote |
fertilized egg, fewer than half survive |
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embryo |
growing and developing baby |
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fetus |
9 weeks of development, appears human |
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teratoens |
antigens that can destroy a fetus |
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
drinking that effects a fetal brain: hyperactivity and lower intellegence |
FAS |
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Habituation |
decrease in responding with a repeated stimulus |
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Maturation |
orderly sequence of biological growth |
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Cognition |
mental activites associated with thinking, knowing, communicating, and remembering |
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Schemas |
concepts/ mental molds, experiences are poured in to shape them |
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Assimilate |
interpret things in our own understanding - schemas |
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Accomadate |
adjust schemas by interacting with the world |
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sensorimotor stage |
birth to 2mo, take in world through senses and actions: looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, etc |
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Object performance |
awareness of objects to continue when you don't see them |
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egocentric |
difficulty percieving information from another point of view |
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Preoporational Stage |
2 to 7, before being able to imagine an action and mentally reverse it, learn symbols, pretend play |
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Theory of Mind |
read intentions and infer other's mental stage |
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Concrete Operational Stage |
physical material can be changed in shape but maintain the same quantity, use logic and real examples - 7 to 11 years |
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Formal Operational |
systematic, moral, and abstract reasoning, if - then... |
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critical point |
optimal period when certain events must occur ro failitate proper development |
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Basic Trust |
sense that the world is a good, predicatable, and reliable place |
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adolescence |
transition from child to adult |
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Puberty |
maturation sexually |
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identity |
resolution of self-definition, unifies into a consistent and comfortable sense of yourself |
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Social Identity |
formed by those around you due to a specific trait, usually one of minorit |
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Intimacy |
ability to form emotionally close relationships |
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Emerging Adulthood |
18 to mid-20s, not yet settled stage |
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Cephalocaudal |
head develops first, proxial to distal |
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head-sparing |
energy goes to brain first in maturation |
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cortical development |
lobes and specialized areas develop |
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Transient Exuberance |
enormous increase in neurons - ready to learn |
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Pruning |
the connections that are not supported and die, focus energy on what is important |
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Brain Growth - Infants |
1-6mo: visual and auditory cortex 3mo: speach 3-10mo: language 7mo: descions |
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Gross Motor Milestones |
Holding up head (6-8wks) Rolling over (2-6mo) Sit up (7-9mo) Crawl - NOT ALWAYS (5-11mo) Walk (9-17mo) |
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Fine motor movemtns |
prepreaching - fling body proprioception - knowing where you are |
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scaffolding |
challenge - assist - instruct - motivate |
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zone of proximal development |
challenge, but one that is achievable |
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attachment styles |
secure, anxious ambivolance, avoidant |
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parenting styles |
authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative |
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