What is development - 5 stages correct answers Pg 18
1. Multidirectional -
2. Multidisciplinary
3. Multicontextual
4. Multicultural
5. Plastic
Biosocial correct answers Human behavior is a function of the interaction of biochemical, neurological, and genetic factors with environmental st...
Biosocial correct answers Human behavior is a function of the interaction of biochemical,
neurological, and genetic factors with environmental stimuli.
Psychosocial correct answers What around you and how you react, Describes a person's
psychological development in the context of one's social environment.
Cognitive correct answers Thinking, How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
Development according to Bronfenbrenner correct answers Bioecological Theory: Pg 11
Microsystem - elements of immediate surroundings
exosystems - local institutions suach as schools, church
macrosystems - cultural values, economics and politics
mesosystem - connects all systems.
What is a case study? correct answers ..., an observation technique in which one person is studied
in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles., An intense, in depth study or investigation
of some behaviour or event of interest in an individual or small group
What is longitudinal study? correct answers Pg 24. one group of subjects is followed and
observed for a long period of time
What is a cross-sectional study? correct answers Research that compares groups of people who
differ in age but are similar in other important characteristics;
What is correlation? correct answers ..., Is when a given variable tends to change predictably in
the same (or opposite) direction for a given change in the other, correlated variable.
Review Genes and Chromosones correct answers Pg. 64
Gametes correct answers Sex cells
Dominant Genes correct answers genes that show their effect even if there is only one allele for
that trait in the pair
Recessive Genes correct answers ..., Genes that show their effects only when both (recessive)
alleles are the same.
, Phenotype correct answers An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.
Genotype correct answers An organism's genetic makeup
Prenatal Development Stages correct answers Pg. 89,
1. Zygote: sperm fertilizes the egg
2. Germinal: 14 days - fertilized egg travels down fallopian tube and attaches to the uterine wall
3. Embryonic: 3rd - 8th week - embryo increases by 2 million percent
4. Fetal: 9th week to birth - begins in third month with measurable electrical activity in the
fetus's brain
Teratogens correct answers pg. 103 (critical periods of development)
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal
development and cause harm
Sleep for a new born? correct answers Pg 125
New borns sleep 15-17 hours a day. Half the sleep is REM sleep.
Cortex Maturity - which one happens last correct answers Pg. 127
The frontal cortex muture last at about age twenty. At birth basic senses in the auditory, visual
are functioning.
Visual Cliff and what does it study correct answers Pg. 161
The visual cliff is an apparatus designed to present the illusion of a sudden drop. 3-month-olds
can notice a drop but an infant can not afford falling until they start to crawl.
Gross Motor Skills correct answers Large body movements
Fine Motor Skills correct answers Skills that involve the smaller muscles of the body, such as
those in the fingers where small, precise movements, such as using scissors or writing, are
required
Reflexes correct answers ..., A simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus, such as
the knee-jerk response.
Information Processing Theory - what is it? correct answers pg, 160
Top Down Processing - compares human thinking to a computer
Language rules correct answers Pg. 166
Language acquisition device correct answers Chomsky's concept of an innate, prewired
mechanism in the brain that allows children to acquire language naturally
Sequence of learning language - we all learn the same way correct answers Pg. 166
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