Name given to an optimal period when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development
What is a critical period?
The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
What is conservation?
This thing forms a connection between the pregnant mother and the fetus. Not the umbilical cord!
What is the placenta?
Name for the test given using an apparatus to demonstrate an early ability in infants to perceive depth
What is the Visual Cliff?
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
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?
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?
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?