Children with this attachment pattern seek little contact with their mothers and are not distressed when she leaves
What is avoidant attachment?
According to Piaget, schemas are
What is a mental framework or set of rules we use to organize our experiences
According to Freud, this personality system s what represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standard.
What is our superego?
This stage (crisis) of psychosocial development is marked by whether or not an infant's needs are adequately met by its caregivers
What is trust vs. mistrust?
This stage (crisis) of psychosocial development features an adolescent grappling with questions like "Who am I?" and "Where am I going in life?"
What is identity vs. confusion?
Emotional distress seen in infants when they are introduced to people they don't know
What is stranger anxiety?
Term describing the process o interpreting new experiences in terms of your existing schema?
What is assimilation
The defense mechanism that one would use to take out their anger on an unacceptable object or person.
What is displacement?
This level of moral reasoning is marked by children accepting society's rules as their own because they want to be virtuous and win others' approval
What is the conventional level?
A child's inability to mentally "undo" something during the preoperational stage of cognitive development
What is irreversibility?
Children with this attachment pattern appear anxious with their mother near, distraught when she leaves, but not comforted when she returns
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Proposed that individuals progress through three levels (six stages) of moral reasoning
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
What is the name of the subjective Personality test that asks one to create a story about an ambiguous picture?
What is the TAT - Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
This stage (crisis) of psychosocial development is marked by reflection on one's life
What is integrity vs. despair?
Mastery of conservation is characteristic of this stage of cognitive development
What is the concrete operational period?
Harlow's studies illustrated that THIS is more important than primary reinforcement (food) when it comes to infant-mother attachment
What is contact comfort?
Who developed the theory of Morality (3 stages - Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional)
Who is Kohlberg?
Which theorist believed that individuals need Unconditional Positive Regard?
Who is Carl Rogers?
This stage of cognitive development features thinking about concepts such as justice, love, and free will
What is the formal operational period?
Children who are competent outside of a nurturing home environment have mastered this stage (crisis) of psychosocial development
What is industry vs. inferiority?
Argued that infants are biologically programmed to emit behavior that triggers an affectionate, protective response from adults
Who is John Bowlby?
Studied the three parenting styles and their outcomes on children's personality development. Name the 3 styles and explain each.
Who is Diana Baumrind? What are Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive?
The name of the defense mechanism that transforms unacceptable motives into the opposite
What is Reaction Formation?
In the preoperational stage, a boy who says his sister does not have a brother is plagued by this cognitive flaw
What is egocentrism?