EPSY 255 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Theoretical Ecology, Twin, Mitosis

• School: UIC
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EPSY 255
• Professor: Coba-Rodriguez, Sarai E.

Document Summary

Epsy 255, spring 2019 | exam 1 study guide. 3 developmental processes: biological processes, cognitive processes, socioemotional processes. Periods of development: prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence. 3 issues in development: nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, early and late experience. Bronfenbrenner"s ecological theory: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem: Identical twins (monozygotic twins) v. fraternal twins (dizygotic twins) Adoption: developmental issues regarding parenting of adopted children. Fetus period vernix lanugo brain development: age of viability. Teratogens/principles of teratology: principle of susceptibility, principle of critical or sensitive periods, principle of access, principle of dose-response relationships, principle of teratogenic response, principle of interference with specific mechanisms, principle of developmental delay and sleeper effects . Indicators that birth is approaching: false labor, lightening, bloody show. Stages of childbirth: stage 1, stage 2. Newborn adaptation to labor & delivery: trauma, stress hormones, survival skills. Medical interventions during the birth process: fetal monitors, cesarean delivery.