(3.1) Lifespan Development

Introduce solid foods to a baby around ________ months old.

6

Failure to thrive

A situation in which infants don't grow properly and develop as normal

What does the myelin sheath do?

Choices A and C (Help electrical impulses travel through neurons, cover the neurons with a fatty coating)

Infants in Romania orphanages who are uncared for often die. What term describes this?

Failure to thrive

Development begins at birth.

False

Myelin

Fatty coating that surrounds neurons

John has the world figured out. He knows how everything works, is very confident he will succeed and knows that everyone admires him. What describes this adolescent's way of thinking?

John has a personal fable

Develop

To grow or expand

The happiness an elderly adult feels is largely based on how successful earlier events in her life were.

True

Children of what age category learn to master language and discover the correct way to structure sentences?

Early childhood

What are the categories of development in a lifespan?

Infant, early childhood, adolescent, young adult, middle adult, later adult

Which is not a category of development in a lifespan?

Informational

Attachment

The feelings of emotional connection a child has toward someone else

Puberty

The onset of sexual maturation