Psychology Unit 3

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What will possibly happen to a person who feels inferior?

Choices A and C. The person will have a hard time getting along with others. The person will have difficulty making friends.

Because the critical period involves the development of embryos and young children, adults do not need to be mindful of their actions.

False

Development begins at birth.

False

During what major stage/age does a person feel either industry or inferiority?

Stage 4: preadolescence

develop

o grow or expand

When kids construct a whole world around something they believe, it is called ____.

schema

What does the myelin sheath do?

help electrical impulses travel through neurons cover the neurons with a fatty coating

What are the categories of development in a lifespan?

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

Which is not a categories of development in a lifespan?

informational

Introduce solid foods to a baby around _____ months old.

6

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.

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

early childhood

Chris talked to his grandma on the phone, and she asked what birthday presents he received. Chris picked up a toy bat and said, "This is what I got" fully expecting his grandma on the other end of the phone to see the toy bat too. What aspect of development is Chris showing?

egocentrism

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

failure to thrive

myelin

fatty coating that surrounds neurons

During what stage do you learn abstract thinking skills?

formal operations

Piaget became interested in children's development when he _____.

listened to their wrong answers during IQ testing

Accutane is a legal drug, but so severe to an unborn child _____.

that an unborn child exposed to this drug will have birth defects that a woman is required to take two forms of birth control while on this drug that after birth, the baby will have vision and brain damage, heart problems, and mental disabilities.

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

True

What are similarities between Piaget and Erikson's work?

Both are stage theorists.

What are differences between Piaget and Erikson's work?

Both study different aspects of human development. Each has a different number of stages in his theories. Each has different ideas about how people progress through stages. all of the above.

Baby Derek sees his mom leave a room and cries. He is only one year old. Why is he crying?

Derek doesn't realize his mom still exists. He thinks his mom is gone for good.

Only humans have periods.

False

What happens if a pregnant woman smokes, drinks, or does drugs during her pregnancy?

The baby is very likely to be born with physical disabilities.

The period is _____.

an important window of time for development often referring to the development of an unborn baby something that even sparrows experience all of the above.

failure to thrive

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

attachment

the feelings of emotional connection a child has toward someone else

puberty

the onset of sexual maturation


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