Ch 9: Lifespan Development
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- Attachment
- The emotional bond that forms between an infant & caregiver(s), especially his/her parents
- Kübler-Ross 5 Stages of Death
- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
- Gender indentity
- a person'e psychological sense of being male or female
- Social learning theory
- The theory that gender roles are aqquired through the basic processes of learning, including reinforcement, punishment, & modeling
- Embryonic Period
- weeks 3 through 8
- Infant-directed sppech
- "Baby talk"
- Formal Operational
- From adolescence through adulthood; chracterized by the ability to think logically about abstract principles & hypothetical situations
- Umbilical cord
- embryo's lifeline; connected from mother's unterine wall to embryo's abdominal area, delivers nourishment, oxygen & water & carries away cardon dioxide & other wastes
- Gender schema theory
- The theory that gender-role development is influenced by the formation of schemas, or mental representations, of masculinity & femininity
- Genetic Contributions to Your Life Story
- chromosomes, DNA, genes
- Development psychology
- studies the physical, mental, & socail changes across the lfe span
- Germinal (Zygotic) Period
- 1st two weeks
- Vygotsky's viewpoint
- (zone of proximal development) The difference between what children can accomplish on their own & what they can accomplish with the help of others who are competent
- Sensorimotor
- From birth to about age 2; the period during which the infant explores the environment & acquires knowledge through sensing & manipulating objects
- Concrete Operational
- From about age 7 to about adolescence; characterized by the ability to think logically about concrete objects & situations
- Attitudes towards Dying & Death
- In general, anxiety about death tends to peak in middle adulthood, then tends to decrease in late adulthood
- Information-processing model
- The model that cognitive development as a process that is continuous over the lifespan & that studies the development of basic mental processes such as attention, memory, & problem-solving
- Temperament
- Inborn predisposition to consistency behave & react in a certain way
- Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development
- Proposed that each of 8 stages of life is associated with a particular psychosocial conflict that can be resolved in either a positive or a negative direction
- Ego integrity/life review
- The feeling that one's life has been meaningful; thinking about or retelling their life story to others
- Placenta
- prevents the mother's blood from directly mingling with the embryo's
- Amniotic sac
- a fluid filled sac that houses the embryo
- Adolescence
- transition between late childhood to begining adulthood, which sexual maturity is reached
- Gender
- the cultural, social, & psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity
- Gender roles
- the behaviors, attitudes, & personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine in a given culture
- Activity theory of aging
- The psychosocial theory that life satisfaction in late adulthood is highest when people maintain the level of activity they displayed earlier in life
- Preoperational
- From age 2 to about age 7; characterized by increasing use of symbols & prelogical thought processes
- Teratogens
- Harmful agents or substances that can cause malformations or defects in a embryo of fetus
- Puberty
- The stage of adolescence in which an individual reaches sexual maturity & become physiologically capable of sexual reproduction