PSYC 1001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Primitive Reflexes, Jean Piaget, Depth Perception
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Normative investigations: describe a characteristic of an age or development stage. Developmental age: chronological age at which most people show the level of physical or mental development of a child. Longitudinal design: the same people are observed and tested over time. Cross-sectional design: participants of different ages are observed and compared at the same time. Different birth cohorts: can cause a problem in the study because people born during diff times may be different than others. Zygote: single fertilized cell created when a sperm fertilizes an egg. Germinal stage: first 2 weeks after formation of the zygote. Rapid cell division, after 1 week, attack to uterine wall. Embryonic stage: 3-8 week of development in womb. Division occurs still, differentiation of cells to form organs. Fetal stage: end of 8th- birth of child. Robert fantz: babies prefer to look at objects with contour as opposed to plain ones. Gibson & walk: depth perception, deep and shallow end on checkerboard cloth.
