Stage Fright!
This level of moral reasoning is marked by "wrong" behavior being punished and "right" behavior being rewarded
What is the preconventional level?
Children with this attachment pattern seek little contact with their mothers and are not distressed when she leaves
What is avoidant attachment?
Proposed 4 stages of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
"If life is a journey, this is its ultimate destination"
What is death?
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?
His/her studies of infant monkeys showed the importance of contact comfort in forming attachments
Who is Harry Harlow?
This stage of prenatal development lasts from 2 weeks until the end of the second month
What is the embryonic stage?
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?
A child referring to anything eaten out of a bowl as "cereal" is committing this kind of language error
What is an overextension?
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?
Conducted "A Strange Experiment" to study infant-mother attachment patterns
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
Risky adolescent behavior may be explained by the immaturity of this part of the brain
What is the prefrontal cortex?
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
Who is Diana Baumrind?
This type of memory is most vulnerable to age-related memory loss
What is episodic memory?
In the preoperational stage, a boy who says his sister does not have a brother is plagued by this cognitive flaw
What is egocentrism?