Unit 6 Psychology (Developmental)

Developmental Psychology

• the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.

• a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.

• the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.

• the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.

Zygote

• the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.

• the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.

• The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

• agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.

What are agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.

• Zygote

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Teratogens

• Habituation

What is the the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth called.

• Maturation

• Zygote

• Teratogens

• Fetus

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

• Cognition

• Zygote

• Maturation

• Habituation

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• Cognition

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Conservation

Stage of cognitive development when children begin to show signs of adult thinking

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal operational stage

• Preoperational stage

• Sensory-motor stage

What type of development do developmental psychologist study?

• physical

• social

• cognitive

• all of the above

During which of Piaget’s stages would the individual begin to look at the world through a view without egocentrism?

• sensorimotor stage

• preoperational stage

• concrete operational stage

• formal operations stage

The concepts of stranger and separation anxiety were pioneered by which of the following theorists?

• Jean Piaget

• Carol Gilligan

• Harry Harlow

• Mary Ainsworth