Prenatal Development
The first stage of prenatal development. This is the fertilized egg.
What is the zygote?
This skills involve the movement of smaller muscles, such as buttoning your shirt.
What are fine motor skills?
An emotional tie with another person. This is shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
What is attachment?
The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
What is puberty?
The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
What is the social clock?
Agents such as viruses and drugs can damage an embryo or fetus
What are teratogens?
Touching the corner of an infant's mouth and they will turn their head in that direction.
What is the rooting reflex?
The fear of stranger that infants commonly display beginning about 8 months of age
What is stranger anxiety?
A period from about age 18 to the mid-twenties, when many in Western cultures are no longer adolescents but have not yet achieved full independence as adults.
What is Emerging Adulthood?
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This results from a gene copying error that results in an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is down syndrome?
Adapting one's current understandings(schemas) to incorporate new information.
What is accommodation?
This was demonstrated by infants who displayed either a clinging, anxious attachment, or an avoidant attachment that resists closeness.
What is insecure attachment?
Lawrence Kohlberg proposed that during this stage, morality evolves to a more conventional level that cares for others and upholds laws.
What is conventional morality?
What is the death-deferral phenomenon/theory
Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
What is Habituation?
Piaget proposed that during this stage, young infants lack object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Erikson proposed that during this stage teens try to determine their identity and their direction in life.
What is Adolescence?
What is Identity v. Role Confusion?This person criticized Kohlberg's research for not accounting for differences in men and women.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
Due to the wearing down of this, aging cells may die without being replaced with perfect genetic replicas.
What are telomeres?
About 10 days after conception, this stage completes as the zygote attaches to the mother's uterine wall.
(Hint: During this stage, the cells inside the egg divide)
What is the germinal stage?
The space between what a child can and can't do with help.
(Hint: Lee Vygotsky came up with this theory as an alternate view of cognitive development!)
What is the zone of proximal development?
This parenting style is closely associated with the development of self-reliance and confidence.
What is authoritative parenting?
How we value ourselves. This often falls during early adolescence but rises in late teens and early 20s.
What is self-esteem?
What is Stage 2?
What is Anger?