fertilization
habituation
phallic
change
Piagetian
Apgar
cognitive
schizophrenia
teratogens
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
John Locke
second
operant conditioning
Every portion of the life span is influenced by earlier events and will in turn affect later events.
vernix caseosa
superego
highest
homozygous
Sigmund Freud
chromosomal abnormalities
“walking epidural”
23 to 24
social construction
logically related statements seeking to describe, explain, and predict development.
intellectual development
Change and stability in mental abilities, such as learning, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, etc. would constitute which type of development?
Psychoanalytic theory was developed by
Environmental factors that may produce birth defects are called?
The oily covering on the skin of a newborn is called
A baby stops sucking to listen to a tone. Later, after the tone has been repeated frequently, the infant ignores it. This is an example of
A psychological disorder marked by loss of contact with reality and demonstrating such symptoms as hallucinations and delusions, which also seems to have a strong genetic component, is
The proper order of Freud’s psychosexual stages of development is
Cody is 3 months old and has been given a pacifier to suck on for the first time. Since he finds sucking on the pacifier to be pleasurable, Cody repeats this activity whenever possible. According to Piaget, Cody is in the __________ substage of the sensorimotor period.
HOME is an instrument for evaluating the impact of a child’s home environment on
Life-span studies are based on which of the following ideas?
The loss of a fetus is identified as a “stillborn death” after how many weeks of gestation?
Cesarean birth rates in the United States are among the __________ in the world.
A method of medicated delivery that allows a women to feel sensations and move her legs so she is able to participate in childbirth is the
Which early philosopher described children as a tabula rasa on which society writes?
Which of the following words BEST describes the focus of the study of human development?
The existence of adolescence as part of the life span in many industrialized societies is an example of
Which approach looks at the quality of cognitive functioning at different stages of life?
When a child learns to behave in a specific way in order to obtain a specific result, what is occurring?
A zygote is created when a sperm and an egg combine in the Fallopian tube to form a single cell. This process is referred to as
Miscarriages are most commonly caused by
An assessment of the newborn’s appearance, pulse, reflex, activity, and breathing is called the
Which one of the following personality entities would be most similar to what is called “conscience”?
According to psychosexual theory, 4-year-old Austin would be in which stage?
In the study of human development, a theory is a set of
When both alleles are the same, the person is ____________ for the characteristic?
