Lifespan Growth & Development

By age 6, the average child has a vocabulary of ______ words

14,000

Maternal consumption of _____ alcoholic drinks a day during pregnancy is associated with lower IQ, ect.

2

Nancy Bayley developed the Bayley Scales of Infant Development to measure

2 areas: mental and motor abilities

Labor proceeds in _____ stages

3

Infantile amnesia is defined as the lack of memory for experience that occurred prior to

3 years of age

women who give birth over what age are at a greater risk of pregnancy and birth complications?

30

The American College of Sports and Medicine and CDC recommend people should have

30 minutes of moderate physical activity at least 5 days a week

Baby Alexander makes minor changes in his schemes each time his environment provides him with a new experience. This is the process of

Accommodation

According to K. Warner Schaie, the first stage of cognitive development, encompassing all of childhood and adolescence, in which the main development task is to acquire information is called

Acquisitive stage

The hormone _________ is produced in ________, which some scientists say may lead to differences in male and female brain structures.

Androgens; males

4 year old Alex and his mother visited the zoo. While they were there, Alex's mother took him to see the squirrels. Alex saw many different types of squirrels, but when he saw a flying squirrel, he called it a bird. Considering Piaget's work, Alex is demonstrating an example of

Assimilation

What psychologist used a pragmatic, trial and error approach to psychological measurement that continues to serve as the predominant approach to test construction today?

Binet

Which researcher suggests a flexible approach to potty training, which advocates that it be put off until the child shows signs of readiness?

Brazelton

Which is not considered a psychosomatic disorder?

Cancer

Madeline is working to teach her 4 year old, Eliza, how to count. She places 10 buttons in one row with little space between them and 8 buttons in another with more space between them. When asking Eliza which row has more, Eliza chooses the second row, even though she knows 10 is more than 8. This is an example of?

Centration

Which researcher developed the 'nativist approach' and 'universal grammar' to explain how children learn their language skills?

Chompsky

When faced with the task of remembering a list of cups, plates, and knives, 10 year old Kevin groups the items into a coherent pattern- cups and plates, forks and knives. Kevin is using

Control strategy

When a person attempts coping that involves unconscious strategies that distort or deny the true nature of the situation, its called

Defensive coping

When a child is able to pretend that they're driving a fast car, feeding a doll, or cooking dinner after they have witnessed it, it is called

Deferred imitation

_____ recieve messages from other cells, and their opposite end is a long extension called _____ which carries the message

Dendrites; axons

What is the term for an overall developmental score that relates to performance in four domains: motor skills, language use, adaptive behavior, and personal-social?

Developmental quotient

Wendy is playing hide-and-seek, instead of finding a hiding spot, Wendy covers her eyes, this is an example of?

Egocentric thought

What is the term for intelligence that reflects information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory?

Fluid intellegence

What stage do people develop the ability to think abstractly

Formal operational stage

The first, and shortest, stage of the prenatal period is

Germinal

Piaget believed that the exact timning of a stage reflects an interaction between the infant's _______ and _______.

Level of physical maturation; the nature of the social environment in which the child is being raised.

Concrete operational thought involves applying ______ to solve problems

Logical operations

Using memory skills such as getting better organized, paying attention, using visualization strategies, and rehearsing information for later retrieval are all considered

Mnemonic strategies

As william is laying his infant down in the crib at bedtime, he gently removes his hand from the back of the baby's head and neck, the baby thrusts his arms outward appearing to grasp onto something. This is known as the ______ reflex

Moro

What is the term for the smallest language unit that has a meaning?

Morpheme

What is the tern for the approach that considers how information that is collected by individual sensory systems is integrated and coordinated?

Multimodal approach to perception

Fertility is ________ correlated with age.

Negatively

The basic nerve cell of the nervous system are called

Neruons

Communication with other neurons is done by means of _______ that travel across the small gaps called _____

Neurotransmitters; synopses

Who was the Swiss developmental researcher whose theory of developmental stages highly influenced a considerable amount of work on cognitive development?

Piaget

_____ is the degree to which a developing structure or behavior is modifiable due to experience.

Plasticity

Thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must sometimes be solved in relativistic terms is called

Postformal thought

When a young child begins to learn how to take turns in a conversation, stay on topic, and give responses like please and thank you, this is called

Pragmatics

According to Arnold Lazarus and Susan Folkman, the assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are positive, negative or neutral is called

Primary appraisal

Allison is having a difficulty in her math class. She goes to her teacher to discuss ways in which she can improve her skills, or even drop the class if necessary. Allison is demonstrating

Problem-focused coping

Information processing focuses on ______ changes in infants

Quantitative

According to K. Warner Schaie, the stage where the major concerns of middle aged adults relate to their personal situations, including protecting their spouses is called

Responsible stage

Walking, eating, sleeping, and elimination are important parts of a baby's ________

Rhythems

Piaget believed that the basic building blocks of the way children understand the world are mental structures called

Schemes

The term for physical declines brought about by environmental factors of an individual's behavioral choices is

Secondary aging

According to Arnold Lazarus and Susan Folkman, the assessment of an event to determine whether one's coping abilities and resources are adequate to overcome the harm, threat, or challenge posed by stressor is called

Secondary appraisal

What is the name for the rules that govern the meaning for words and sentences?

Semantics

Some experts suggests that some adolescent eating disorders are a result of

Stressful situations and cultural demands

According to Piaget, _______ is at the heart of ____________

Symbolic function; language

When middle school aged children understand the rules of language that indicate how words and phrases can be combined to form sentences, this is called

Syntax

Robert Sternberg developed the _________, intelligence consists of three components

Triarchic theory of intelligence

All of the following are gross motor skills a 5 year old possesses except

holding/manipulating a pencil

In Sternbergs triarchic theory of intelligence, the contextual aspect of intelligence deals with?

how prior experiences are used in problem solving, which involves the ability to cope with new situations

The study of psychoneuroimmunology suggests that when a stressful situation is encountered several biological reactions occur, EXCEPT

lightheadedness or unconscious episodes

Arnold Gesell formulated what type of test?

measures infant development to distinguish between normal and atypical development in babies

Robert Fantz discovered

newborn infants prefer to look at complex stimuli rather than simple stimuli