PSY 3123: Child and Adolescent Development Test1 Study Guide

Chapter 1
Define human development
What is the purpose of the scientific method?
Can people only have one culture?
Scientist seek to progress from _____ to _____?
Why is replication necessary?
How to you reduce SIDS?
Sensitive period vs critical period
What are mirror neurons?
What type of research method is used to define causes?
Define independent group?
uickest and least e!pensive way to study development
Define correlation
Code of ethics for researchers
Chapter "
What is the purpose of a theory?
#now what psychoanalytic theory emphasi$es
Intrinsic drives and motives are%?
#now the psychose!ual stages
What is the underlying &asis of psychoanalytic theory?
What type of theory is &ehaviorism? It's also called?
(nderlying philosophy of learning theory?
How did )iaget &egin his work?
*ssimilation vs accommodation
Information processing theory has led to discoveries in what disorder?
#now +aslow's hierarchy of needs
Define selective adaptation
Chapter ,
Do genes instruct the production of D-*?
-atural se! ratio?
+a!imum life span for humans
+olecular &asis of heredity
Sperm has how many chromosomes
Homo$ygous vs Hetero$ygous
How are stem cells uni.ue?
Identical vs /raternal twins
0enotype vs )henotype
Dominant vs 1ecessive genes 2i3e34 carrier5
Development of alcoholism
#now the &asics of Down syndrome
Chapter 6
Is an em&ryo recogni$a&le as a fetus at 7
th
weeks?
*verage la&or for first&orns
Highest score for respiratory on *pgar
What is the inner layer of cells called?
)ercentage of spontaneously a&orted &a&ies
Indicators of via&ility
What triggers la&or?
/ive signs of *pgar
Country with highest rates 8 C9sections
1u&ella affects what?
When is the heart most suscepti&le to &irth defects
What happens to low9&irthweight &a&ies in the first few months?
#now refle!es