MIDTERM

• Conception to week 2 is known as the Zygote Stage.
• Another name for Egg is Ovum.
• Sperm Tail is also known as Flagellum.
• Blastocyst is an Explosion of cells.
• Gestation is the Length of Pregnancy.
• The Fetus Stage is stopped by Birth.
• Meiosis determines Gender.
• Mitosis determines everything else.
• The period from End of week 2 to week 8 is known as the Embryonic Stage.
• The period from End of week 8 to birth is known as the Fetal Stage.
• A Trimester is a period of three months during a pregnancy.
• In the zygote stage, DNA is being determined.
• Hearing is the first thing to develop in a fetus.
• Premature Birth is when a baby is born smaller in weight, less physically and cognitively developed, and up to 2 months early.
• Cognition refers to the ability to think.
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure.
• An X-Ray disrupts the development of brain cells in a fetus.
• Drugs can cause abnormal physical and psychological development in a fetus.
• Alcohol can cause mental retardation and facial disfigurement in a fetus.
• Teratogens are defects.
• The Cephalocaudal trend refers to the head to feet growth and motor controls in a fetus.
• The Proximodistal trend refers to the center out growth and motor controls in a fetus.
• Gross Motor Skills are abilities usually acquired during childhood as part of a child's motor learning.
• Fine Motor Skills are the coordination of small muscles in movement with the eyes, hand, and finger.
• During the Medieval Times, Preformationism referred to the idea that children were viewed as miniature adults.
• Puritanism, during the Medieval Times, referred to the belief that children are born evil and stubborn.
• Tabula Rassa is a term that refers to a clean slate.
• During the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was referred to as a proponent of the belief that children are noble savages.
• Ontogeny is the study of an organism's lifespan.
• Phylogeny is an evolutionary "tree" tracing their origins.
• Behaviorism is a theory that animals and humans behavior can be explained by conditioning without appeal to thought or feeling.
• Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland.
• Schema refers to the idea or describes both mental and physical action involved in understanding and knowing.
• Assimilation is the process of taking new information into our previously existing Schema.
• Accommodation is another part of adaptation that involves changing or altering our existing schemas in light of new information.
• Jean Piaget's stages of development include Sensorimotor from Birth to 2 years old, Preoperational from 2-7 years old, Concrete Operational from 7-11 years old, and Formal Operational from 12 up.
• Object Constancy states that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, touched, or sensed.
• Egocentrism is the belief that they are the center of the world… everyone’s world.
• In Harlow Monkey Theory, the Monkey chose the cloth mother
• Attachment as a child is an emotional bond to one’s caregiver.