Psychology 210
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Scaffolding
Temporary support that is tailored to a
learner's needs and abilities and aimed at
helping the learner master the next task in a
given learning process
Changes in self esteem in childhood
Increases
Brainpower
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Two tasks of adulthood according to Freud
Intimacy and generativitiy (love and work),
anxious about close relationships, jealous,
lonely when emerging into adulthood
,Visual improvement in first year of life
Continues to improve, binocular vision (the
ability to focus the two eyes in a coordinated
manner in order to see one image, absent at
birth)
Fast mapping
The speedy and sometimes imprecise way in
which children learn new words by tenatively
placing them in mental categories according
to their perceived meaning
Cohort
Born within a few years of you (go through
the same thing), a group defined by the
shared age of its members, born about the
same time, move through life together,
experience same historical events and
cultural shifts
When development begins
Conception
Factors which affect timing of puberty
Body fat, stress, gender, and genetics
Best time to learn a second language
School years
,Sequence and timing of motor skills among
infants
Sequence is the same but timing is different
Strongest risk factor for death in childhood in
developed countries
Low socioeconomic status
Genotype
An organism's entire genetic inheritance or
genetic potential
Phenotype
The observable characteristics of a person,
including appearance, personality,
intelligence, and all other traits
Where does conception occur
Fallopian tubes
What is the purpose of the apgar? What 5
criteria does it measure?
A quick assessment of a newborn's health,
the baby's color, heart rate, reflexes, muscle
tone, and respiratory effect are given a score
of 0, 1, or 2 twice one at one minute and five
minutes after birth and each time the total of
all five scores is compared with the maximum
score of 10 (rarely attained)
, Zone of proximal development
Vgotsky's term for the skills-cognitive and
physical-that a person can exercise only with
assistance not yet independently
Synchrony
Connection between mother and baby, can
happen any time, more face to face play,
often leads to attachment (lasting emotional
bond) which influences relationships later in
life
Infant reflexes- rooting, Babinski, Moro,
Palmar, etc
Babinksy's reflexes: Plantar reflex,
1.extension upward of the toes when the sole
of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side
from the heel to the front; normal in infants
under the age of two years but a sign of
brain or spinal cord injury in older persons
Rooting reflexes: Occurs in infants (we
outgrow it) and is a tendency for the infant,
when stroked on the side of the face, to
move its face in the direction being stroked,
open its mouth, and search for a nipple. This
reflex is for survival as it helps infants locate
food.
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