In Utero
The children
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive develop. stages
Social development and Identity formation
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This is the percentage of things the pregnant mother exposes her unborn child to while pregnant. This includes everything she breathes to everything she eats.
What is 100% (everything)
100
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with wherein the baby will turn its head toward anything that strokes its cheek.
What is the rooting reflex?
100
This is the name of the famous Swiss developmental and cognitive psychologist who developed a stage theory of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
This is the first stage in Piaget's cognitive stage theory where children in this stage learn the world around them by touching, feeling, tasting, hearing, smelling, and seeing.
What is the Sensorimotor stage?
100
Children displaying this type of attachment explore their environment happily in the presence of their mothers. When the mother leaves, they show distress.
What is a secure attachment?
200
This drug administered to over 20,000 women in the 1950s for pregnant women experiencing morning sickness wound up leading to birth defects such as shortened limbs.
What is Thalidomide?
200

Name given to an optimal period when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development

What is a critical period?

200
This is the name for the mental molds in which we pour our experiences, or how we understand the world.
What are schemas?
200

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

What is conservation?

200
This is a very rapid bonding process often displayed by animals such as goslings.
What is imprinting?
300

This thing forms a connection between the pregnant mother and the fetus. Not the umbilical cord!

What is the placenta?

300

Name for the test given using an apparatus to demonstrate an early ability in infants to perceive depth

What is the Visual Cliff?

300
This is the process of incorporating new experiences into our current understanding.
What is assimilation?
300
This stage of Piaget's cognitive developmental stage theory is hallmarked by children who are dominated by ego- centrism and are unable to understand the laws of conservation.
What is the Preoperational Stage
300

Socially constructed definition for “the right time” to leave home, get a job, marry, have children, and retire—varies from era to era and culture to culture.

Social clock

400
These are chemicals or viruses that can enter the placenta and harm the developing fetus.
What are Teratogens?
400

The name of the event in both girls and boys that signify that the person has exited chidhood and entered adolescence.

What is the menarche and spermarche?

400
This is the process of adjusting our current understanding of the world and modifying it.
What is accommodation?
400
People in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development stage theory are able to think and reason abstractly as well as use symbols and imagined realities.
What is the Formal Operational Stage
400

According to the Ecological systems theory, at this level you will find your parents' friends, local government, mass media, and extended families.

What is exosystem?

500
These are two of the facial abnormalities often visible on a child born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
What are small head, low nose bridge, Eye folds, small eye openings, short nose, flat face, smooth philtrum, thin upper lip, underdeveloped jaw
500
This is the process where various bodily and mental functions occur in sequence such as standing before walking, babbling before talking, etc.
What is maturation?
500
Piaget believed that this is how children learn or how their cognitive development is shaped.
What are by making mistakes/errors?
500
Someone in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory become able to view the world from someone's perspective and are also able to perform reversibility.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
500

In this Adolescent identity formation status we see individuals with a low sense of identity but actively searching for identity, like a college student who repeatedly changes their major every year searching for what they want to do. 

What is identity moratorium?

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