Psychology 101 Chapter 4

Biological growth processes that disable orderly changes in behavior= maturation

•Agents, such as a chemicals, that can cause harm.

development is gradual and continuous and occur in separate stages

body organs begin to form and function, and by 9 weeks: a baby is now formed in the uterus

•Childhood MMR vaccines does lead to ASD

•studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information

Children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

t/F habituation is learn what newborns and infants can see, hear, smell, and think

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking

Adapting current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

–Involves ability to read mental state of others-= theory of mind

–Child learns to use language but cannot yet perform the mental operations of concrete logic

–Children are no longer limited to concrete reasoning based on actual experience.

•Infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

where development is a slow process

development is influenced by Genetics and environment

when one sperm cell unites with an egg

inner cells become the ____, and the outer cells become the placenta.

experiences

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing understandings

unique gene combination

predisposed genetically

traits persist and which change through life