Prenatal & Newborn
Infancy Part I
Infancy Part II
Adolescence
Cognitive development
100
Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, signs include a small, out-of-proportion head and abnormal facial features. 
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
100
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
100
Fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
What is stranger anxiety?
100
The transition from childhood to adulthood.
What is adolescence?
100

Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

what is schema?

200

Specialized organ, sustains the life of the embryo by transferring oxygen and nutrients, removing waste products, and after the initial months of gestation, secreting hormones that sustain the pregnancy

what is a placenta? 

200
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
What is maturation?
200

physical closeness with a caregiver

What is contact comfort?

200
The ability to form close, loving relationships AND a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
What is intimacy?
200

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

what is cognitive development?

300
Chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. 
What are teratogens?
300

____ are born preferring sights and sounds that facilitate social responsiveness

What is a neonate?

300
This study found that attachment does not derive from an association with nourishment.
What is Harlow's monkey study?
300

Parenting style that is characterized by having few and inconsistent rules and a relaxed attitude to parenting that is more like a friend than a parent

what is permissive?

300

Interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas

what is assimilation?

400
The zygote (2 weeks); embryo (2 weeks after fertilization until the second month); and fetus (9 after conception until birth).
What are the three stages of prenatal development and when do they occur?
400

Infants have a set of innate (existing from birth) unlearned behavior patterns to help the infant to survive

What is a reflex?
400
The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early-life critical period.
What is imprinting?
400

Parenting style that is child-centered, in that parents closely interact with their children, while maintaining high expectations for behavior and performance, as well as a firm adherence to schedules and discipline.

What is Authoritative? 

400

Developmental psychologist, initially developed children’s intelligence tests, focus on differences in thinking between adults and children

who is jean piaget?

500

The difficulty or inability that adults have in remembering detailed or episodic memories (memories were time, place and events can be identified) from early childhood, generally prior to age 3 or 4

what is infant amnesia? 

500
Sensorimotor stage (up until age 2, object permanence); preoperational (2 to 7, conservation and egocentrism); concrete operational (7 to 12); formal operational (12 and up). 
What are the four stages of cognitive development as outlined by Piaget and what are the specific developmental milestones associated with each? Also include ages. 
500
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
What is temperament?
500
Infancy (to 1 year), focusing on trust versus mistrust; toddlerhood (1 to 3 years), focusing on autonomy versus shame; preschool (3 to 6 years), focusing on initiative versus guilt; elementary school (6 to puberty), focusing on competence versus inferiority; adolescence (teen to 20s), focusing on identity versus role confusion; young adulthood (20s to 40s), focusing on intimacy versus isolation; middle adulthood (40s to 60s), focusing on generativity versus stagnation; and late adulthood (late 60s and up), focusing on integrity versus despair.
What are four out of the eight stages of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development and what is the main issue in each? 
500

Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

what is accommodation?

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