Chapter 12 Psychology 175.102

Biologically based changes that following an orderly sequence, each step setting the stage for the next step according to an age-related timetable.

Studies the way humans develop and change over time

Periods of special sensitivity to specific types of learning and sensory stimulation that shape the capacity for future development

Times that are more important to subsequent development than others

Relatively discrete steps through which everyone progresses in the same sequence

Compare groups of participants of different ages at a single time to see whether differences exist among them

Differences among age groups associated with differences in the culture

Assess the same individuals over time, providing the opportunity to assist age changes rather than age differences

Minimise the cohort effect by studying multiple cohorts longitudinally

Environmental agents that harm the embryo or foetus.

A serious condition affecting up to half the babies born to alcoholic mothers

The time at which individuals become capable of reproduction

The inability to hear high-frequency sounds

Prejudice against old people

The ability to associate sensations of an object from different senses or to match their own actions to behaviours they have observed visually

Completely lacking explicit memory for events before age 3 or 4

Germinal period. (First two weeks) Embryonic period. (Third week till eighth week) Foetal period. (Nine weeks till birth)

Numerous physical deformities, a wide range of mental abnormalities, learning disabilities, behavioural problems and attention difficulties

Premature birth, malformed internal organs, withdrawal symptoms, respiratory problems, delayed motor development and death

Problems with attention and motor development

The sensation of the menstrual cycle. Can result in low estrogen levels. Usually begins in the 40s or 50s and my last several years

The tendency of humans, even from birth, to pay more attention to novel stimuli than to stimuli to which they have become habituated or grown accustomed.

Involves interpreting actions or events in terms of one presents schemas

An organised, repeatedly exercised pattern of thought or behaviour