AP Psych Unit 8.1 Dev FAC

Teratogen

• Fertilized egg that undergoes rapid cell division

• unborn child with one or more physical abnormalities

• chromosomal activity

• substance that can cross the placental barrier and harm an unborn child

Reorder the following stages of prenatal development, from earliest to latest:

• Fetus

• Embryo

• Zygote

Match the description with the reflex babies have:

Groups:

(a) Rooting Reflex

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(b) Grasping Reflex

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(c) Moro Reflex

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(d) Babinski Reflex

• When touched on cheek, baby turns toward & opens mouth to eat

• When startled, flings body out & then retracts

• Baby grabs objects placed in palm or foot pad

• Baby spreads toes when foot is stroked

What is pruning in the context of developmental psychology?

• Adding more neurons to the brain
• Oppressing the growth of new neurons

• Decreasing the complexity of neural networks

• Eliminating unused or unnecessary connections between neurons

The biological growth processes that are uninfluenced by experience

• Maturation

• Habituation

• Conservation

• Theory of Mind

Habituation

• awareness that things still exist even when they aren't seen

• adjustment of current schemas to make sense of new information

• interpretation of new information in terms of existing schemas

• decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus to which one is repeatedly exposed

Jean Piaget was a __________________ developmental psychologist

• Social

• Humanistic

• Cognitive

• Psychoanalytic

Schema

• A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

• The idea that number, mass, and volume stay the same regardless of changes in shape

• Vygotsky's theory that that you can learn something with the help of teachers, parents, and students

• The realization of identity and self

Match the descriptions to the terms about cognition:

Groups:

(a) Assimilation

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(b) Accommodation

• Adapting current schema to incorporate new info

• Used when new experience is similar to previous experiences

• Used when new experience changes our understanding of the schema

• Interpreting new experience within context of existing schema

Reorder the following stages of Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development from earliest to latest:

• Formal Operational

• Preoperational

• Sensorimotor

• Concrete Operational