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SECTION 2 – INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
Physical Development (p. 415)
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On the day you were born, you had most of the ______________________ you would ever have
What brain area experience the most rapid growth? What are the last cortical areas to develop?
When do more complicated motor skills emerge?
Average age of earliest conscious memory is _________ years.
Cognitive Development
5. Due to Jean Piaget, we now understand that:
6. What was Piaget’s core idea?
Social Development
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What is stranger anxiety?
What is attachment? (be sure to understand Harlow’s monkeys experiment!!)
What is a critical period?
What is imprinting?
In a strange situation, what is the difference between secure attachment and insecure attachment?
What is temperament?
_______________ predisposes temperament differences.
Erik Erikson said that securely attached children approach life with a sense of basic trust. What does
this mean?
9. In humans, the ______________ sometimes become the ___________________.
10. Does day care affect attachment? Explain based on results of studies.
11. When does Darwin belief self-awareness begins? About what age does this happen?
12. What did the study done by Dutch researchers determine in regards to whether self-esteem was lowered
by being adopte
13. Describe the differing parenting styles: .authoritarian permissive authoritative:
SECTION 3 – PARENTS AND PEERS(p. 441)
Parents and Early Experiences
14. Both ________________ and ____________________ sculpt our synapses.
15. Do parents matter? Explain.
Peer Influence
16. What did Howard Gardner (in the study excerpt) conclude about the influence of peers? Do you agree?
Why or why not?
SECTION 4 - Adolescence
17. What changes are going on in adolescent’s brain?(447)
SECTION 5 – ADULTHOOD(p. 455)
Physical Development
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When do our physical abilities peak?
During early and middle adulthood, physical vigor has less to do with age than with:
What are some changes in our sensory abilities as we get older?
For those growing older, what is the bad and good news about health?
What underlies the symptoms of Alzheimer’s?
Cognitive Development
6. Nearly ____________ of people over the age of 40 say their memory is worse than it was 10 years ago
7. What type of memory remains strong as we get older?
8. What is the difference between a cross-sectional study and a longitudinal study?
a. What did each study find out about intelligence and aging?
9. What is crystallized intelligence and how does it change with age?
10. What is fluid intelligence and how does it change with age?