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What is Developmental Psychology?
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Changes in physical and psychological functioning that occur from conception across your entire lifespan, that are active or passive, and involve gains and losses.
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What is Normative Investigation?
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Normative Investigation establishes a normal distribution of characteristics/abilities for each age group, that allows a comparison between actual and developmental age.
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What is Cross-Sectional Design?
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A study design in which individuals of different ages tested all at the same time, however this is not very reliable since every person can have a unique background, but it is cheap.
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What is Longitudinal Design?
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A study in which individuals are tested numerous times over there life spans, (this is more expensive, but more accurate)
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The domains of Development are?
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how you change physically, cognitively, and socially.
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What are the stages of development?
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Prenatal (conception-birth), Infancy (0-18 months), Childhood (18 months to 11 years), Adolescence (11-20 years), Adulthood (20 years and beyond)
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What are the stages of development for the prenatal stage?
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Fertilization, Embryonic, fetal period.
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What does the fertilization period include? (0-2 weeks)
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Sperm fertilizing the egg, the zygote (female egg) moving down the fallopian tube, cell division creating a blastocyst, and the blastocyst attaching to the uterine wall.
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What does the embryonic period include? (2-8 weeks)
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blastocyst forming a placenta, and embryo, as well as a sensitive stage of organ development, the brain develops first, then spine, first heart beat is after 5 weeks.
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Fetal Period includes? (9-38 weeks)
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Developing human features, movement first at 8 weeks, first felt at 16 weeks, rapid brain growth approx. a quarter million a min., baby has chance to live on own at 27 weeks with no technology, with technology possibly 22 weeks.
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What develops during the Infancy Period? (0-18 weeks)
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Reflexes, visual system, auditory system, motor
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