PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development, Preterm Birth
2 Feb 2016
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Chapter 11: human development across the life span. Accommodation: changing existing mental structures to explain new. Age of viability: the age at which a baby can survive in the event of experiences a premature birth. Animism: the belief that all things are living. Assimilation: interpreting new experiences in terms of existing mental structures without changing them. Attachment: a close, emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers. Centration: the tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem, neglecting other important aspects. Cephalocaudal trend: the head-to-foot direction f motor development. Cognitive development: transitions in youngsters" patterns of thinking, including reasoning, remembering, and problem solving. Cohort effects: effects of differences between age groups that are due to the groups growing up in different time periods. Conversation: piaget"s term for the awareness that physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in their shape or appearance.
