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* Stranger anxiety – babies not wanting to be with people other than people they know (are not familiar with)
 
* Stranger anxiety – babies not wanting to be with people other than people they know (are not familiar with)
 
* Theory of  mind – ability to see things from another person<nowiki>’</nowiki>s POV
 
* Theory of  mind – ability to see things from another person<nowiki>’</nowiki>s POV
* Mental retardation
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* Mental retardation - caused by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
* Role confusion
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* Role confusion - teenagers; finding one's identity
 
* Authoritative parenting – strict parenting
 
* Authoritative parenting – strict parenting
 
* Fluid intelligence – intelligence of reasoning – decreases over time
 
* Fluid intelligence – intelligence of reasoning – decreases over time
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* Conservation
 
* Conservation
 
* Social Clock – idea that events for adults happen in a certain order and time – decreasing importance because of increased social freedoms
 
* Social Clock – idea that events for adults happen in a certain order and time – decreasing importance because of increased social freedoms
* Basic trust – babies gain about the world if they are brought up properly – if not gained while they are young – may be permentatly lost
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* Basic trust – babies gain about the world if they are brought up properly – if not gained while they are young – may be permanently lost
* Vygotsky and his research – social interaction is a fundamental part of learning – requires social interaction
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* Vygotsky and his research – social interaction is a fundamental part of learning – requires social interaction - at age 7; children's internal speech - gives them a scaffold to build on
 
* Familiarity – what babies gain about the world as they age
 
* Familiarity – what babies gain about the world as they age

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Chapter 4 Review Sheet for AP Psychology

  • Attachment – connection parents have with their kids – thought to be caused by nature keeping kids cared for and all caregivers – not due to nourishment, but touch
  • Egocentric – Idea kids have in preschool that everything sees them through them
  • Secure attachment – Kids will wonder from their parents – when parents leave will sad and will seek contact when they return
  • Unsecured attachment – Kids will stay with their parents - when parent leave will not be upset – effects seen later in life (the sad monkey)
  • Object permanence – Kids under 8 months – when something goes out of sight it is out of mind
  • Teratogen - chemicals and viruses that can enter embryo and fetus and cause harm
  • Responsive parenting – parents that respond to their kids needs all of time
  • Rooting reflex – reflex babies have – starts when touching their cheeks
  • Primary sex characteristics - develop at puberty – learn about them in health class
  • Brain chemistry -
  • Formal operational – last state of Piaget attachment series – 12 and up
  • Kohlberg and his critics – moral ladder – 3 stages – financial level and gender matters
  • Prenatal development – development in the womb – zygote (conception to 2 weeks), embryo (2 weeks to 8 weeks), fetus (9 weeks to birth) – can be harmed by fetal alcohol syndrome and tetragons
  • Accommodation – adapting to new information to change schema
  • Assimilation – adding new info to schema
  • Habituation – becoming used to it
  • Estrogen – female hormone creates secondary sex characteristics
  • Gut level intuition – immediate moral reaction
  • Crystallized intelligence –factual information, increases as ages
  • Cognitive development
  • Conservation of volume – when children are able to know that an upside down beaker does not gain liquid
  • Autism – mental disease, people who can not relate socially, more internally focused
  • Stability vs. Change – as we get older our life is a pattern of stability vs change – stability of personality starts around 2 – temperament more stable; consciousness too (but can be stable relative to peers as they age)
  • Nature or Nurture – concern if genes or environment
  • Menarche – first period
  • Development Psychology – area of psychology concerned with human development (this chapter)
  • Preconvention – early stage of morality – only do things to not get into trouble
  • Maturation – growth through stages
  • Attachment – organisms bond with each other; young children to their caregivers; cause of stranger anxiety
  • Abstract reasoning – ability for people to have complex ideas; can see things that are not their
  • Identity – sense one has of them self
  • Post Conventional – last stage of morality; do things one thinks is right; regardless of the law
  • Secure attachment – feel comfortable with their mother
  • Marriage bonds – becoming weaker
  • Marrying at an older age – is happening; prolonging adolescent period
  • Trust – feeling one has about another human’s ability to execute actions; 1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
  • Imprinting – what animals do to the 1st thing they see
  • Autonomy – ablitiy to act on their own
  • Newborn and their mom’s voice – are attached to it
  • Stranger anxiety – babies not wanting to be with people other than people they know (are not familiar with)
  • Theory of mind – ability to see things from another person’s POV
  • Mental retardation - caused by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  • Role confusion - teenagers; finding one's identity
  • Authoritative parenting – strict parenting
  • Fluid intelligence – intelligence of reasoning – decreases over time
  • Car accidents and the elderly – are far more likely to happen because bad eyesight in old people
  • Emotional stability
  • Self Awareness
  • Conservation
  • Social Clock – idea that events for adults happen in a certain order and time – decreasing importance because of increased social freedoms
  • Basic trust – babies gain about the world if they are brought up properly – if not gained while they are young – may be permanently lost
  • Vygotsky and his research – social interaction is a fundamental part of learning – requires social interaction - at age 7; children's internal speech - gives them a scaffold to build on
  • Familiarity – what babies gain about the world as they age