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What is step 1 of the Scientific Method? - Answer Question/curiosity
What is step 2 of the Scientific Method? - Answer Develop a hypothesis
What is step 3 of the Scientific Method? - Answer Test hypothesis (gather empirical evidence)
What is step 4 of the Scientific Method? - Answer Draw conclusions
What is step 5 of the Scientific Method? - Answer Report the results
The term used to describe an infants sudden death, when a seemingly healthy baby (2-6
months) suddenly stops breathing while asleep - Answer Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS)
an approach to the study of human development that takes into account all phases of life, not
just childhood or adulthood - Answer Lifespan perspective
changes happen in every direction at any point in the life-span - Answer Development is
multidirectional
a time when a particular type of growth (body or behaviour) must happen if it's ever going to
happen - Answer Critical period
a time in which a certain type of development is most likely to happen or happens most easily.
Can still happen later but it's less likely and harder - Answer Sensitive period
view that in the study of human development, the person should be considered in all contexts
and interactions that constitute a life - Answer Ecological-systems approach
who developed the ecological-systems approach? - Answer Urie Bronfenbrenner
a person's position in society as determined by income, wealth, occupation, education, and
place of residence - Answer Socioeconomic status (SES)
, the idea that people who are different than us are inferior - Answer Difference-equals-deficit
error
referring to the effects of environmental forces on the expression of an individuals or species
genetics inheritance - Answer Epigenetic
human traits can be moulded and yet people maintain a certain durability of identity - Answer
Development is plastic
a view of human development as an ongoing, ever changing interaction between a persons
physical and emotional being, and between the person and every aspect of his/her environment
- Answer Dynamic-systems approach
the idea that some people are more vulnerable than others are to certain experiences, usually
due to genetic differences - Answer Differential sensitivity
irrational, unconscious drives and motives, often originating in childhood, underlie human
behaviour - Answer Psychoanalytic theory
lips, tongue, and gums are focus of pleasurable sensations. Sucking and feeding are the most
stimulating activities - Answer Birth - 1 yr (Oral Stage)
anus is focus of pleasurable sensations. Toilet training is the most important activity - Answer
1 - 3 yrs (Anal Stage)
phallus (penis) is most important body part. Pleasure derived from genital stimulation. Boys
proud of penis and girls wonder why they don't have one - Answer 3 - 6 yrs (Phallic Stage)
not really a stage, an interlude during which sexual needs are quiet and children put psychic
energy into conventional activities like schoolwork or sports - Answer 6 - 11 yrs (Latency)
genitals focus of pleasurable sensations, and the young person seeks sexual pleasure and
satisfaction through relationships - Answer Adolescence (Genital Stage)
Freud believed genital stages lasts. Also said goal of healthy life is "to love and to work" -
Answer Adulthood (Genital Stage)
babies either trust that others will care for their basic needs or develop mistrust about the care
of others - Answer Trust vs. Mistrust