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Development
child, adolescant, elderly
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Psychology
11th Grade
03/30/2006

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plastocyte
Definition
first successful sperm
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zygote
Definition
first ten days, about 100 cells, goes in and attaches to the placenta
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embryo
Definition
forms after the zygote, the next six weeks of growth, organs begin to form, heart beats, blood cells are made
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fetus
Definition
9th week, looks like a human, synapses are being formed, begins to respond to stimuli, develop senses,
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apgar test
Definition
1 minute after birth see if the baby survived, 5 minutes after birth see if it is adapting (breathing, sucking, swallowing) on a scale from 1-10
heart rate is 100+=2 points
crying (respiration)=2 points
muscle tone=2points
reflexes=2points
completely pink=2 points
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fetal abnormalities
Definition
FAS, cerebral palsy (lack of oxygen during pregnancy), Neural tube defects- spina bifea
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grasping reflex
Definition
the baby grips really hard when you touch their palm
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Rooting
Definition
if you touch the side of a baby's mouth, they turn their head toward that direction
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moro relfex
Definition
when startled, a baby will fling its limbs into the air, and then pull them back quickly and retract to make itself as little as possible
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Babinski Reflex
Definition
when a baby's foot is stroked, he or she will spread the toes
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Habituation
Definition
how they tell a baby is getting used to things, recognizing things, babies have a different response when they are given the same stimulus again, everyone has the same sequence of maturation, although its done at different times
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assimilation v. accomodation
Definition
assimilation is the process of FITTING things into one's schemas in order to understand new things that are happening whereas accomdation is ADJUSTING by changing your methods to work with new situations
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object permanence
Definition
a child's realization that an object exists even when they cannot see, hear, or touch it
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representational thought
Definition
the intellectual ability of a child to picture something in their brain
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conservation
Definition
according to Piaget, the idea that a given quantity does not change when an appearance changes
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Egocentrism
Definition
inability of a child in the preoperational stage to see anyone else's point of view besides their own
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critical period
Definition
a period in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned
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authoritarian family
Definition
these are the rules, don't explain why, very strict, attempt to control the family according to a certain set of rules
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authoritative leader
Definition
a person who assigns all the tasks and makes all the decisions in a group
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Permissive family
Definition
they just let things be, they have rules but don't enforce them, children have the say, parents don't punish but just accept
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sensorimotor stage
Definition
the stage up until age two when children learn to coordinate sensory experiences with motor abilities, start to understand the world around them by sucking, grasping, crawling, etc
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Concrete Operations
Definition
eight to twelve years old, children begin to think more logically about complex relationships between objects, can work back and forth, in and out of things, multiplication and division, begin to understand other people's thinking, start to think about the affects of their actions,
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formal operations
Definition
through adulthood, abstract reasoning, we all do not reach this in thought, we can think about doing things in our mind without actually doing them, reasoning, can solve puzzles, figure stuff out
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asynchronoy
Definition
the period during puberty where maturation of body parts is uneven
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generativity
Definition
the desire in the middle ages to use one's wisdom to guide the younger generations
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stagnation
Definition
no more development and the desire to bring back the past, mostly in middle aged people
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ageism
Definition
prejudice based on age, especially against the elderly
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thanatology
Definition
the study of death and dying
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fluid intelligence
Definition
the ability to acquire new ideas and behavior, learn from experiences, and adapt to new situations
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crystallized intelligence
Definition
refers to knowledge that is held over time, holds steady or may increase
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Preoperational stage
Definition
playing pretend, don't have conservation, egocentric here, can't understand what other people are thinking
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Attachment
Definition
absence of mother has greater impact than father because they came in contact first with the mother, most takes place in the first few months, huge impact on social development, can be deprived, can only handle detachment about once, affects the limbic system, emotion,
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Self Concept
Definition
your idea and value of yourself which begins to be defined in the critical period, begin to compare yourself to others, around age eight, you realize how your actions affect the world and the community
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frontal lobe development
Definition
in adolescence, the brain cells you aren't using fade away and new ones develop, frontal lobe controls reasoning, logic, consequence stuff, develops last, girls-19, boys-21,
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pre-conventional
Definition
am i going to be punished or am i going to get a reward
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conventional
Definition
begin to look at the consquences of your actions, how they affect others, see that laws are there for a purpose, group opinion affects you alot
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post-conventional
Definition
late-teen, adult stage, you know what the group believes, form your own opinions of what is right and wrong
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