Developmentalists
Pregnancy/Birth
Infants
Preschool
Middle Childhood
100

The developmental theorist who included the Zone of Proximal Development in their theory.

Who is Vygotsky?

100

An invasive procedure that involves aspirating amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman's uterus to evaluate genetic wellbeing of the infant.

What is an amniocentesis?

100

The motor skills used by an infant to grasp a rattle.

What are fine motor skills?

100

The type of parenting style demonstrated by parents who show little interest in their children and may be lax or inconsistent with feedback to the child.

What is Laissez-Faire parenting?

100

Erickson's stage for a typical 8 year old.

What is Industry vs inferiority?

200

Erickson's first stage of development

What is Trust vs Mistrust?

200

The longest stage of labor.

What is the first stage?

200

Malnutrition during the first year where infants stop growing.

What is marasmus?

200

Simple repetitive play that may involve objects.

What is functional play?

200

Piaget's cognitive stage assumes middle childhood represents this stage of development.

What is Concrete Operational?

300

Type of developmentalist who looks at functions of the brain which include things such as language development.

What is Cognitive Developmentalist?

300

The stage of labor where the baby has completely left the mother's body.

What is the 2nd stage?

300

What an infant has developed who continues to search for a hidden object.

What is Object permanence?

300

When a child's thinking does not take into account the viewpoints of others, this is referred to as what?

What is egocentric thought?

300

A child who understands that a glass of liquid poured into a different glass still has the same amount of liquid has achieved what cognitive milestone.

What is conservation?

400

A theorist who created a psychoanalytic theory based on psychosexual stages, personal experiences, and unconscious thought. 

Who is Freud?

400

Nurture is to the environment as nature is to_____.

What is genetics?

400

Ainsworth's strange situation was designed to measure what concept of infancy?

What is attachment?

400

According to Piaget, preschoolers are in this stage of cognitive development.

What is preoperational?

400

The IQ test that measures 8 distinct intelligences including musical, bodily, kinesthetic, etc).

What is the Gardner IQ test?

500

The theorist that studies Moral reasoning.

Who is Kohlberg?

500

The scale used to measure the immediate health and well-being of a newly born infant.

What is the APGAR? (Appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respirations)

500

Pattern of growth that begins with the head and upper body.

What is cephalocaudal?

500

Type of place where children play with similar toys but do not interact with each other.

What is parallel play?

500

The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus.

What is centration?

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