PSYCH 2000 LSU EXAM 3 COHEN QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
The embryonic period - Answer-2 weeks after conception, ends at 8 weeks. The vital organs and structures of the baby form during this period, making it a critical one when teratogens may adversely affect the development of those ...
PSYCH 2000 LSU EXAM 3 COHEN
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DETAILED ANSWERS
The embryonic period - Answer-2 weeks after conception, ends at 8 weeks. The vital
organs and structures of the baby form during this period, making it a critical one when
teratogens may adversely affect the development of those developing organs and
structures
The fetal period - Answer-the beginning of the 9th week until the birth of the baby.
During the fetal period, tremendous growth occurs, length and weight increase, and
organs continue to become fully functional
Four critical areas of adjustment for the newborn - Answer-respiration, digestion,
circulation, temperature regulation
Infants are born with reflexes that - Answer-help the infant survive until more complex
learning is possible. These reflexes include sucking rooting, Moro (startle), grasping,
and stepping
The senses, except for vision - Answer-are fairly well developed at birth
Vision is - Answer-blurry and lacking in full color until about 6 months of age
Gross and fine motor skills - Answer-develop at a fast pace during infancy and early
childhood
Piaget's stages include - Answer-sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational,
formal operational
Vygotsky believed that - Answer-children learn best when being helped by a more
highly skilled peer or adult in a process called scaffolding.
The zone of proximal development - Answer-the difference between the mental age of
tasks the child performs without help and those the child can perform with help
Autism spectrum disorder - Answer-a neurodevelopmental disorder, which involves
impairments in thinking, feeling, language, and social skills in relating to others
Parents and others who fear immunizing their children against dangerous diseases
have failed to understand - Answer-the basic principles of critical thinking
, The three basic infant temperatures - Answer-easy (regular, adaptable, and happy),
difficult (irregular, non adaptable, and irritable), and slow to warm up (need to adjust
gradually to change)
The four types of attachment are - Answer-secure, avoidant (unattached), ambivalent
(insecurely attached), and disorganized-disoriented (insecurely attached and sometimes
abused or neglected)
Harlow's classic research with infant rhesus monkeys demonstrated - Answer-the
importance of contact comfort in the attachment process, contradicting the earlier view
that attachment was merely a function of associating the mother with the delivery of
food
In trust versus mistrust - Answer-the infant must gain a sense of predictability and trust
in caregivers or risk developing a mistrustful relationship
In autonomy versus shame and doubt - Answer-the toddler needs to become physically
independent
In initiative versus guilt - Answer-the preschool child is developing emotional and
psychological independence
In industry versus inferiority - Answer-school age children are gaining competence and
developing self-esteem
Adolesence - Answer-the period of life from about age 13 to the early 20s, during which
physical development reaches completion
Puberty - Answer-a period of about 4 years during which the sexual organs and
systems fully mature and during which secondary sex characteristics such as body hair,
breasts, menstruation, deepening voices, and the growth spurt occur
Adolescents engage in two kinds of egocentric thinking called - Answer-the imaginary
audience and the personal fable
Kohlberg proposed three levels of moral development - Answer-preconventional
morality, conventional morality, and postconventional morality
In Erikson's identity versus role confusion crisis - Answer-the job of the adolescent is to
achieve a consisten sense of self from among all the roles, values, and futures open to
him or her
Adulthood begins in the - Answer-early 20s
Adulthood ends with death - Answer-in old age
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