Early Childhood Development

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

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 is the prenatal development sequence?

• Zygote, fetus, embryo

• Embryo, fetus, Zygote

• Zygote, embryo, fetus

• Fetus, zygote, embryo

As infats gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. This decrease in responsiveness is called?

• concentration

• habituation

• stability

• continuity

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

• motor skills

• maturation

• schema

• accomodation

As the infant's brain develops, some nueral pathways will decay if not used. This "use it or lose it" process is known as

• heredity

• amnesia

• pruning

• motor development

What explains the following phenomena: Elia age 10 has no memory of her third birthday party.

• infantile amnesia

• cognition

• conservationsim

• egoecentrism

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development?

• Sensorimotor, Preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

• Preoperational, motor skills, formal operational, concrete operational

• preoperational, sensorimotor, formal operational, concrete operational

• sensori, egocentrism, Preoperational, concrete operational

This psychologist emphasized how the child's mind grows through interaction with the social environment. Parents provide a scaffold from which children can acheive higher thinking.

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Erikson

• Kohlberg