Physical development
Social and Emotional
Cognitive
Conlon
Erikson
100

What is it called when the brain removes synaptic connections that are not used?

Pruning

100

All infants have a fundamental need to form_____

Strong connections/attachment

100

What is a schema?

Mental representation of knowledge

100

What Piaget stage of development is taken advantage of by parents so that they can play peekaboo with their infant.

Sensorimotor

100

Infancy (0-1 year)

Trust vs. mistrust

200

What is one technique that parents can use to help their child develop cognitively?

Serve-and-return play

200

What is separation anxiety?

Beginning at 8 months, infants show distress when away from caregivers
200

In what stage of Piaget's theory is object permanence achieved?

Sensorimotor

200

When Aroura hears the word forest, she thinks of green. What is green in this scenario?

A schema

200

Old age (65+ years)

Integrity vs. Despair

300

Besides pruning, what is the other characteristic of brain development in children and infants?

Formation of synaptic connections

300

What are the three attachment styles

Secure

Avoident

Ambivalent

300

What is meant by how is a schema assimilated/accomodated

incorporating new information or adapting a new schema

300

Jordan is three years old. When in the car with his mom he sees a plane in the sky. He joyously screams out "BIRD!". His mother then points out the birds must have feathers. What does Jordan do with this new information.

Assimilates feathers into his bird schema

300

Adolescence (12-18 years)

Identity vs. Confusion

400

Why infants naturally grab things put in their hands?

Grasping reflex

400

Play Age (3-6 years) 

Initiative vs. Guilt

400

In what stage of Piaget's theory can a child classify objects by several features and can order them.

Concrete Operational

400

Elizabeth sorts all her toys by shape. When her father asks her to shape them by color too. She only sort them by color and the shapes become mixed. What Piaget stage is she in?

Preoperational

400

Early Childhood (1-3 years)

Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt

500

In nature vs Nurture which is related to biology

Nature

500

Early Adulthood (19-29 year)

Intimacy vs. Isolation

500

In what stage is thinking egocentric?

Preoperational stage

500

Joey is posed with the hypothetical: You are a doctor in a hospital waiting room. In come 6 people who were in a freak accident, 5 are in critical condition. 1 is brain dead with no hope of recovery but his body is totally healthy. You, as the doctor, can save all 5 critical condition patients by transplanting the sixths organs into them. Joey decides that he wouldnt do that as a doctor. What Piaget stage is Joey in?

Formal Operational Stage

500

Middle Age (30-64 years)


(School Age (7-11 years))

Generativity vs. Stagnation


(Industry vs. Inferiority)

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