Quiz 8- Ch. 5

Front 1

What is the term zygote & fetus refer to?

Back 1

Zygote: fertilized egg cell that develops through its first stages until it becomes a fetus.

Fetus: formed from a zygote about 8 weeks after conception.

Front 2

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:

Back 2

An infant can develop this condition marked by malformations of the face, heart, and ears; and nervous system damage; including seizures, hyperactivity, and impairments of learning, memory, problem solving, attention, & motor coordination.

Front 3

Embryo:

Preembryo:

Back 3

…article

Front 4

Habituation:

Dishabituation:

Back 4

Habituation- decreased response to a repeated stimulus.

Dishabituation- when a change in a stimulus increases a previously habituated response, the stimulus produces dishabituation.

Front 5

Who was Jean Piaget?

Back 5

A theorist who made point that older children are much easier to test and one quickly discovers that their thinking differs from that of adults.

Children construct new mental processes.

Front 6

Schema:

Back 6

An organized way of interacting with objects.

Front 7

Assimilation:

Back 7

Means applying an old schema to new objects or problems.

Hint 7

Animals move and kid see sun move so they may think sun alive too.

Front 8

Accommodation:

Back 8

Means modifying an old schema to fit a new object or problem.

Front 9

Egocentrism:

Back 9

According to Piaget,

Young children’s thoughts are egocentric meaning a child sees the world as centered around himself or herself and Cannot easily take another persons perspective.

Front 10

Conservation:

Back 10

According to Piaget:

Preoperational children lack the concept of conservation. MEANING they fail to understand that objects conserve such properties as number, length, volume, area,& mass after changes in the shape or arrangement of the objects.

Front 11

Piaget 4 major stages of cognitive development:

(Intellectual development)

Back 11

1. the sensorimotor stage( birth-2years)

2. The preoperational stage( from just before 2-7 years)

3. The concrete operations stage (from about 7 to 11 years)

4. The formal operations stage (from about 11 years onward)

Front 12

Object permanence:

Back 12

The idea that objects continue to exist even when we do not see or hear them.

Front 13

Who is Lev Vygotsky?

Back 13

A Russian psychologist (1978) argued that educators should not wait for children to rediscover the principles of physics and mathematics.

Language is valuable.

Front 14

Zone of proximal development:

Back 14

Vygotsky’s concept of the distance between what a child can do alone and what is possible with help.

Front 15

“Theory of Mind”:

Back 15

An understanding that other people have a mind too and that each person know some things that other people don’t know.

Front 16

Concept of Attachment:

Back 16

A feeling of closeness toward another person. They may begin in infancy.

Front 17

Concept of Attachment:

Back 17

A feeling of closeness toward another person. They may begin in infancy.

Front 18

What the strange situation is:

Back 18

Research on attachment has been measure in the strange situation. It’s a procedure, a mother and her infant (12-18 months old) come into a room with many toys and a stranger enters the room and mother leaves and returns. Then both stranger and mother leaves. Then stranger returns and finally come returns. THRU ONE WAY MIRROR A PSYCHOLOGIST OBSERVES THE INFANTS RXN TO EACH COMING AND GOING.