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PSYCH 150 R.

Nair
Fall 2024

Exam 1 Study Guide

Chapter 1 - Introduction
 Six characteristics of the life-span perspective
 Normative age-graded and normative history-graded influences; nonnormative life events
 Processes of development
 Periods of development
 Conceptions of age
 Three developmental issues
 Three developmental patterns of aging
 Methods for collecting data
 Time span research designs
 Ethnic gloss

Chapter 2 – Biological Beginnings, Prenatal Development, and Birth


 Fertilization
 Sources of variability
 Genetic principles
 Chromosome and sex-linked abnormalities
 Gene-linked abnormalities (the 4 we covered in class)
 Heredity-environment correlation views; epigenetic view
 Phases of prenatal development – key aspects
 Four phases of development in the brain
 Teratogens
 The APGAR scale
 Postpartum blues; postpartum depression

Chapter 3 – Physical Development in Infancy


 Patterns of growth
 Four brain lobes
 Neuroconstructivist view
 Synaptogenesis; synaptic pruning
 REM sleep
 SIDS
 Breast feeding versus bottle feeding
 Dynamic systems theory; four key aspects
 Reflexes; types of reflexes
 Gross motor skills
 Fine motor skills; types of grasps
 Sensation and perception
 Visual acuity; color vision; size and shape constancy; depth perception
 Hearing in newborns/infants; taste
 Intermodal perception

Exam 1 Study Guide

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PSYCH 150 R. Nair
Fall 2024

Chapter 4 – Cognitive Development in Infancy


 Key ideas in Piaget’s theory
 Sensorimotor stage
 Orienting/investigative process; habituation and dishabituation
 Joint attention
 Implicit and explicit memory; infantile amnesia
 Categorization
 Five rule systems of language
 Early vocalizations
 Vocabulary spurt; overextension and underextension
 Telegraphic speech
 Brain areas involved in language
 LAD
 Interaction view; child-directed speech
 Strategies to enhance acquisition of language

Chapter 5 – Socioemotional Development in Infancy


 Primary emotions; self-conscious emotions
 Types of smiles
 Stranger anxiety; separation protest
 Temperament - Chess and Thomas’ classification; Kagan’s behavioral inhibition
 Rothbart and Bates’ classification
 Self-recognition
 Trust vs. mistrust; autonomy vs. shame and doubt
 Face-to-face play; still-face paradigm
 Cooperation; social referencing
 John Bowlby’s theory
 Strange situation; types of attachment
 Differences in attachment – caregiving styles

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