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What do developmental psychologists study?
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They study the physical, mental, and social changes throughout the human life cycle
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What are the three major issues developmental psychologists deal with?
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Nature/Nurture, Continuity/Stages, Stability/Change
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What is the rooting reflex?
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It is the baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple
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What are teratogens?
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They are chemicals that pass through the placenta's screen and may harm an embryo or fetus.
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Piaget's First Stage of Cognitive Development
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Birth to nearly 2 years
Sensorimotor Object Permanence(8 months) Stranger Anxiety |
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Piagnet's Second stage of Cognitive Development
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2 to 6 years
Preoperational-lacking logical reasoning Pretend play, egoncentrism, language development |
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Piaget's Third Stage of Cognitive Development
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7 to 11 years
Concrete Operational-grasping analogies, arithmetic Conservation Mathematical Transformations |
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Piaget's Fourth Stage of Cognitive Development
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12 to Adult
Formal Operational-abstract reasoning Abstract logic, Potential for mature moral reasoning |
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What is a sensation?
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It is the process by which we detect energy from the environment and encode it as neural signals
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What is perception?
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It is the selection, organization, interpretation of sensory info.
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