Feb. 25 - AP Psych

Feb. 25 - AP Psych

Open Ended

CCSD has created a plan for the return of students between March 22 and April 6. What are your thoughts and feelings on this?

Multiple Choice

Alcohol is a teratogen that can slip through the

and damage the fetus or embryo.

• placenta

• nervous system

• womb

• brainstem

• zygote

Multiple Choice

As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a

visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away

sooner. The decrease in an infant’s responsiveness is

called

• concentration

• teratogens

• habituation

• stability

• transference

Multiple Choice

Which question expresses the developmental issue of

stability and change?

• Are individuals more similar or different from each

  other?

• How much of development occurs in distinct stages?

• How much of development is determined by

  genetics?

• To what extent do certain traits persist through the

  life span?

• Which traits are most affected by life changes and

  experience?

Multiple Choice

What is the prenatal development sequence?

• Zygote, embryo, fetus

• Fetus, zygote, embryo

• Embryo, zygote, fetus

• Zygote, fetus, embryo

• Fetus, embryo, zygote

Multiple Choice

Some people think development occurs much in the

way a tree grows, slowly and steadily adding one ring

each year. Others think that there are rather abrupt

developmental jumps, like the transformation of a

tadpole into a frog. Which of the following issues would

this difference of opinion relate to?

• Nature and nurture

• Maturation and learning

• Prenatal and neonatal

• Stability and change

• Continuity and stages

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the longest prenatal stage?

• teratogen

• conception

• zygote

• embryo

• fetus

Jean Piaget

Cognitive Psychology

A child's mind develops through a series of stages. Ex. an 8 yr. old can comprehend things a toddler cannot, such as the analogy that miniature slide is too small for sliding, and a miniature car is much too small to get into.

Grab a piece of paper and a pencil

You will have 5 seconds to look at a picture and draw it

waiting....waiting....

Alright - I'll give you a little bit more time....

How did it turn out?

• Was it difficult? why?

• It's an impossible object...you have no schema for such an image

Fish is Fish

When the fish "pictured" a bird and a cow and other animals...what happened?

Schemas and assimilations

The fish, which has never seen a cow or a person, takes the frogs descriptions and imagines them. He sees the bird as a fish with wings, and a cow as a fish with legs, etc. In other words, he assimilates the information into established schemes

• Schema a concept or framework

  that organizes and interprets

  information.

• Assimilation interpreting our new

  experiences in terms of our existing

  schemas.

• Accommodation adapting our

  current understandings (schemas)

  to incorporate new information.