Human development

infant’s clinging response to a touch on the palm of the hand

• clinging reflex

• rooting reflex

• clinging rooting reflex

• Grasping reflex

infant’s response in turning toward the source or touching that occurs anywhere around the mouth.

• Grasping reflex

• feeding reflex

• Clinging reflex

• Rooting reflex

Refers to individuals intellectual growth from infancy to adulthood

• maturation

• childhood developement

• Behavior acqisition

• Cognitive development

Psychologists refer to the internally pre-programmed growth of a child...

• Development

• Assimilation

• Maturation

• Socialization

A newborn infant has certain automatic movement patterns called

• Instincts

• Reflexes

• Formal Operations

• Schemas

Twin studies answer a lot of questions about what big debate in psychology?

• Trust v. Mistrust

• Nature v. Nurture

• Feeling v. Knowing

• Concrete v. Abstract

Jean Piaget is famous for studying

• social development in children

• emotional development in children

• moral reasoning in children

• cognitive development in children

Environmental agents like drugs or disease can have an effect on human development in utero when the fetus is still developing. The name for these harmful environment agents is

• zygotes

• teratogens

• hazards

• microbes

Two reflexes that infants are born with are

• kicking and screaming

• rooting and sucking

• vision and hearing

• sensorimotor

A period in development when a certain skill or characteristic is most effectively acquired is known as a

• altruism

• conservation

• preoperational

• critical period