Psychology: Unit 3 Chapter 1 Section 1
early childhood
Children of what age category learn to master language and discover the correct way to structure sentences?
False
Development begins at birth.
John has a personal fable.
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?
infant, early childhood, adolescent, young adult, middle adult, later adult
What are the categories of development in a lifespan?
Help electrical impulses travel through neurons and cover the neurons with a fatty coating
What does the myelin sheath do?
attachment
the feelings of emotional connection a child has toward someone else
puberty
the onset of sexual maturation
develop
to grow or expand
failure to thrive
a situation in which infants don't grow properly and develop as normal
failure to thrive
Infants in Romanian orphanages who are uncared for often die. What term describes this?
6
Introduce solid foods to a baby around _____ months old.
true
The happiness an elderly adult feels is largely based on how successful earlier events in her life were.
informational
Which is not a categories of development in a lifespan?
myelin
fatty coating that surrounds neurons