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Psych UMW ch 13
Question | Answer |
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Germinal stage | first 2 weeks of pregnancy when fertilized egg attaches to uterine wall |
Embryonic stage | from 2-8 weeks, where sex of baby is determined, if a boy, you get flooded with testosterone (androgen) |
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome | look and feel like a girl, but at puberty, she won’t develop breasts and doesn’t have a uterus, tend to be tall and thin |
German Measels | (rubella) affect is deafness |
Sexually transmitted diseases | blindness among other things |
Cigarette smoking | increases miscarriage, ADHD |
Alcohol | fetal alcohol syndrome |
Other drugs | child can become addicted to these drugs, and increased ADHD |
rooting reflex | touch cheek and baby turns toward you |
sucking reflex | if put stuff by mouth, baby will suck on it |
The Moro reflex | fear of falling, spread legs and arms apart |
Grasping reflex | grasps stuff in hand |
attachment theory | desire to be held, need to have warmth and affection |
Harlow’s experiment | took a baby monkey and had it choose a warm, soft mother and a wire mother with food and it chose the soft one |
Mary Ainsworth experiment | studied human attachment styles, created strange situation |
Strange situation | had a baby (12-18 months) play with toys and had mom leave room and come back |
Secure attachment | when mom leaves baby is sad, and comes back and baby is happy, usually good parenting |
Anxious-avoidant | baby doesn’t notice mother gone, and doesn’t care much when mom comes back, usually neglectful parenting |
Anxious-ambivalent | kid upset both times, usually inconsistent parenting, had most problems in future |
Language development at 4-6 months | start to recognize names |
Language development at 6 months to 1 year | babbling, vowels and consonants |
Language development at by the end of the first year | first words |
Language development at 18-24 months | starting to talk |
telegraphic speech | communicating with only verbs and nouns, incomplete sentences |
Language development at 2-6 years | speaking more and complete sentences |
Piaget | pioneered developmental psychology, specifically cognitive, came up with stages |
Assimilation | already have categories and when seeing new things, put in these categories |
Accommodation | making new categories to fit new knowledge into |
sensorimotor stage | (0-2 yrs) learn to walk, object |
object permanence | understanding that just because something is hidden doesn’t mean it isn’t there |
pre-operational stage | (2-7 yrs) understanding symbols, pretend play, still ego-centric |
ego-centric | can only see things from their own point of view |
concrete operational stage | (7-12 yrs) develop many skills, including conservation |
conservation | water experiment, coins, graham crackers |
formal operations stage | (12 and up) higher order thinking, abstract thinking, metathinking, some adults never gain these abilities |
Kohlberg | Piaget’s student, came up with Heinz dilemma |
preconventional morality | fear of punishment, seen in younger children, or he wants it so much he takes it, ignoring law |
Conventional morality | law based |
Postconventional morality | sometimes there are exceptions to laws |
power assertion | that is wrong and don’t do it because I said so |
induction | getting people to understand the consequence, works to get people to act morally |
Gender Identity | sense of who we are as girl/boy |
biological differences between boys and girls at birth | boys tend to be more active |
gender schema | understanding what it means to be a boy/girl |
gender identity between age 2-3 | unstable |
gender identity between age 4-5 | there are stable gender identities |