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