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Normative Age-Graded Influences
Influences that are similar to individuals in a particular age group.
Normative History-Graded Influences
Influences that are common to people of a particular generation because of historical circumstances.
Non-Normative Life Events
Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life.
Three Major Domains of Human Development
Biological processes, cognitive processes, socioemotional processes
Biological Processes
Changes in the individual's physical nature.
Cognitive Processes
Changes in an individual's thoughts, intelligence, and language.
Socioemotional Processes
Changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, and personality.
Nature-Nurture
How much of development is influenced by your surroundings and how much is influenced by your genetics.
Stability and Change
Involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or change.
Continuity-Discontinuity
Focuses on the degree to which development involves either gradual, cumulative change (continuity) of distinct stages.
Eriksons Theory of Development
Trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, industry vs. identity confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair.
Freud's Theory of Development
Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, Latency stage, genital stage
Ecological Theory (Bronfenbrenner)
microsystem, mesosystem, ecosystem, exosystem, and chronosystem.
Microsystem
Microsystem
Mesosystem
Interrelationships
Exosystem
social settings, communities. Neighbors.
Macrosystem
Involves the culture in which the individual lives.
Chronosystem
Sociohistoricalconditions
Descriptive Research
Studies designed to observe and record behavior.
Correlational Research
Relationship between two variables.
Experimental
independent variable and dependent variable
Cross-Sectional
Different ages at the same time.
4 basic Issues in Protecting Human Participants in Research
Informed consent, confidentiality, debriefing, deception
Three Stages of Prenatal Development
Germinal period, embryonic period, fetal period.
Germinal Period
first two weeks after conception, creation of the zygote.
Embryonic Period
two weeks-8 weeks, rate of cell division increases.
Fetal Period
Lasting about seven months, fetus starts to form.
Blastocyst
Inner layer of cells that develop during the germinal period.
Trophoblast
The outer layer of cells that develop in the germinal period.
Amnion
The life-support system that is a bag that contains a clear fluid in which the developing embryo floats.
Umbilical Chord
A life-support system containing two arteries and one vein that connects the baby to the placenta.
Placenta
A life support system that contains disk-shaped group of tissues that provide nutrients to the fetus.
Teratogen
Any agents that causes a birth defect.
Three Things That Can Influence the Effects of a Teratogen
Dose, genetic susceptibility, time of exposure.
Two Approaches to assessing the health of a newborn
Apgar scale, Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)
Apgar Scale
Evaluates infant's heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, body color, and reflex irritability.
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
A measure that is used in the first month of life to assess the newborn's neurological development, reflects and reactions to people and objects.
Moro
Sudden stimulation, arms out
Rooting
Touch cheek, baby turns head
Sucking
Touch mouth, baby sucks
Babinski
Touch foot, fan out toes
Stepping
Hold above surface, walks
Habituation
Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentation of the stimulus.
Scheme
An organized pattern of thought or actions applied to people, objects, or events in an effort to make sense of them.
Assimilation
Incorporating new information into existing schemas.
Accomodation
Changing schemas.
Implicit Memory
Memory without conscious awareness
Explicit Memory
Memory with conscious experiences.

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