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define Developmental psychology
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a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change throughout the life span
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what are the three major issue of developmental psychology
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Nature and Nurture
Continuity and stages Stability and change |
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what is the Nature and nurture issue all about??
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how our genetic inheritance interact with our experiences to influence our development
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what is the Continuity and stages issue all about?
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what parts of development are gradual and continuous and what parts are abrupt and in separate stages
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what is the stability and change issue all about ?
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which of our traits persist through life and how we change as we age
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what is a zygote?
what does it do? when? what does it turn into? when |
the fertilized egg
has a 2-week period of rapid cell division develops into an embryo, after 2 weeks |
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what is an embryo?
what does it do? when? what does it turn into? when? |
the developing human organsim, forms from zygote
2 weeks-8 kinda chills there until it grows into fetus turns into fetus at 9 weeks |
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what is a fetus?
when does it form? what does it turn into? when? |
the developing human organism, forms from embryo
after 9 weeks turns into fully formed human after total of 9 months |
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define teratogens
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agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
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define FAS
what does it stand for |
physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking
Fetal Alcohol Syndrom can lead to facial misproportions in severe cases |
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what sort of development did Jean Piaget theorize on?
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cognitive development
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what sort of development did Lawrence Kohlberg theorize on?
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moral development
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what sort of development did Erik Erikson theorize on?
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psychosocial development
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what did the theories of Piaget, Kohlberg and Erikson all have in common
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they suggested that development goes through neatly defined, age-linked stages
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how does personality general change as people age?
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it usually stabilizes gradually
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what proportion of zygotes survive their first to weeks after fertilization (when they are created)?
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less than half
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how long does it take for the zygote to attach to its mother's uterine wall?
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about 10 days after conception
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what did William James presume about newborns?
when were his ideas brought into question? why? |
that they are confused and largely unable to understand their new environment
in the 1960s, ways were found to monitor their reactions eye-tracking, sucking, how long they looked at stuff |
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define Habituation
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a decrease in responding with repeated stimulation
encountering the same stimulation repetitively reduces response bordom with familiar stimuli |
