Human Development The Developing Person Through the Life Span - 8th Edition Exam Review Questions and Answers_updated 100% A+ graded

Human Development The Developing Person Through the Life Span - 8th Edition Exam Review Questions and Answers_updated 100% A+ graded what is development - CORRECT ANSWER-The changes that occur from conception to death "womb to tomb" Conceptualizing the life span - CORRECT ANSWER-Prenatal, Infancy, Preschool, middle age children, adolescence, early adult hood, middle adulthood, late adulthood Framing nature-nurture issues - CORRECT ANSWER-How biological forces (nature is genes) and environmental forces interact to make us who we are (nurture is environmental factors) Grasping the Ecology of Development - CORRECT ANSWER-Describing, Predicting, Explaining, and Optimization Modern life span perspective - CORRECT ANSWER-Development is a lifelong process, multidirectional, involves gain and loss, lifelong plasticity, shaped by it's historical culture context, multiply influenced, studied by multiple disciplines The Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER-observations determines the merits of thinking. Theory (set of concepts) Hypothesis ( specific predictions regarding a set of observation) reflexes - CORRECT ANSWER-unlearned responses triggered by specific stimulation alert inactivity - CORRECT ANSWER-state in which a baby is calm with eyes open and attentive; the baby seems to be deliberately inspecting the environment waking activity - CORRECT ANSWER-state in which a baby's eyes are open but seem unfocused while the arms or legs move in bursts of uncoordinated motion crying - CORRECT ANSWER-state in which a baby cries vigorously, usually accompanied by agitated but uncoordinated movement sleeping - CORRECT ANSWER-state in which a baby alternates from being still and breathing regularly to moving gently and breathing irregularly; the eyes are closed throughout basic cry - CORRECT ANSWER-cry that starts softly and gradually becomes more intense; often heard when babies are hungry or tired mad cry - CORRECT ANSWER-more intense version of a basic cry pain cry - CORRECT ANSWER-cry that begins with a sudden long burst, followed by a long pause and gasping irregular or rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep - CORRECT ANSWER-irregular sleep in which an infant's eyes dart rapidly beneath the eyelids while the body is quite active regular or nonREM sleep - CORRECT ANSWER-sleep in which heart rate, breathing, and brain activity are steady sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - CORRECT ANSWER-when a healthy baby dies suddenly for no apparent reason temperament - CORRECT ANSWER-consistent style or pattern of behavior malnourished - CORRECT ANSWER-being small for one's age because of inadequate nutrition neuron - CORRECT ANSWER-basic cellular unit of the brain and nervous system that specializes in receiving and transmitting information cell body - CORRECT ANSWER-center of the neuron that keeps the neuron alive dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER-end of the neuron that receives information; it looks like a tree with many branches