AP Psych Dev Childhood Physical

The automatic and sequential process of development that results from genes

• Heredity

• Critical Period

• Continuous Process

• Maturation

What is Developmental Psychology? The study of...

• The development of the brain

• How people grow and change throughout life

• How baby's interact with the environment

• How baby's form types of attachment

What is a reflex?

• A controlled movement

• Purposeful movement

• An automatic response without thinking

• an instinct

A behavior in which babies reach out their arms and legs and arch their backs in response to sudden sounds

• Moro Reflex
• Babinski Reflex

Learning to crawl is an example of _________________ motor development.

• Gross
• Fine
• Reflex

Stage theories of development assume that

• individuals progress through specified stages in a particular order because each stage builds on the previous stage.

• environmental circumstances can sometimes cause individuals to skip stages early on and return to them later.

• progress through the sequence of stages is not related to age.

• there are few, if any, discontinuities in development.

An infant is shown a picture until she loses interest in it and is then shown a different picture. An experimenter measures how long the infant looks at each picture. This is an example of t

• Maturation

• Habitutation

• Development

• A reflex

Humanlike features start to develop around 9 weeks after conception. What is the developing human called at this point in development?

• zygote

• fetus

• embryo

• teratogen

• Y chromosome

Harmful chemicals or viruses that can be transferred from a mother to her developing fetus are called

• schemas.

• attachments.

• teratogens.

• zygotes.

• menarche.

Which of the following would be most likely to act as a teratogen?

• Exercise

• Physical nurturance

• Music

• Alcohol

• Anger