HSCO 502 HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOP. QUIZ 1 EXAM RATED 100% CORRECT

HSCO 502 HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOP. QUIZ 1 EXAM RATED 100% CORRECT habituation paradigm - Answer-A research technique that takes advantage of a baby's tendency to orient to new stimulation and to habituate to repeated or old stimulation. dishabituation - Answer-a renewed orienting response (a new stimulus) preferential response paradigms - Answer-what babies prefer to look at or listen to visual acuity - Answer-the level of detail a baby can see object concept - Answer-understanding of what an object is, including recognition that an object has properties that can stimulate all senses intersensory integration - Answer-when babies perceive an object in 1 way, they can construct some notion of the object's other perceptual characteristics object permanence - Answer-the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived/seen theory of mind - Answer-people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict. agency - Answer-the ability to act without an external trigger (act independently) semantics - Answer-the words and word parts that express meaning in that language syntax/grammar - Answer-how to link words into meaningful sentences pragmatics - Answer-how people use language to communicate effectively mediation (vgotsky) - Answer-signs and tools are shaped/developed by others (knowledge) phineas gage matrix - Answer-Syndrome related to injury of the frontal cortex. Consists of cognitive dysfunctions (such as poor planning, inadequate decision-making, inability to take another's perspective, and problems in sustaining employment) and emotional problems (such as shallow affect, lack of an enriched emotional life, lack of passion and initiative, and a diminished sense of pleasure and pain). emotional intelligence - Answer-the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions "the 100 year war" - Answer-defining what emotions are and determining the nature/sequence of neurological events that create our emotional experience still-face paradigm - Answer-A research technique for assessing infant coping strategies. working models - Answer-Prototypes of social functioning that affect the child's expectations and behaviors in future relationships oxytocin - Answer-a hormone released by the pituitary gland, plays a role in affiliative behaviors (sexual activities, empathy) temperaments - Answer-different emotional and behavioral characteristics difficult, easy, slow to warm up babies - Answer-difficult- more fearful, irritable, excited easy- less active, more positive, more regular in their rhythms slow to warm up- wariness in new situations, reactions less tense goodness of fit model - Answer-when adults provide care that's adjusted to the temperament of a child, they're unlikely to lead to later adjustment problems AAI - Answer-an interview in which adults describe memories of their parenting received as a child and whether it influenced their own development intergenerational transmission - Answer-When parents repeat with their children the patterns of trauma, rejection, and maltreatment that they experienced as children from their own parents. stages - Answer-qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development 3 personalities - Answer-id, ego, superego - id (biological self, fulfillment of physical needs) - ego (seeks to meet bodily needs) - superego (feeling of doing things) Neuroplasticity - Answer-changes in the brain that occur as a result of some practice or experience prevention science - Answer-designing and testing prevention/intervention techniques for promoting healthy development major structures of the brain - Answer-hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain Teratogens - Answer-environmental agents that harm the embryo or fetus - ex: alchold, tobacco Piaget's Constructivist Theory - Answer-theory in which cognitive development results from children's active construction of reality, based on their experiences with the world (new stimulus and info) assimilation - Answer-children interpret new stimuli in ways that fit what they already know accommodation - Answer-existing knowledge is modified, providing a better fit