In Utero
The children
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive develop. stages
Social and Moral
100
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
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with where a baby will try to squeeze anything that is placed in their hand.
What is the Palmer Grasp Reflex?
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
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
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.
What is the placenta?
300
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with where the baby will spread its arms suddenly in response to the sensation of being dropped.
What is the Moro Reflex?
300
This is the process of incorporating new experiences into our current understanding.
What is assimilation?
300
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
300
This fear of unfamiliar people typically develops sometime around 8 months of age.
What is stranger anxiety?
400
These are chemicals or viruses that can enter the placenta and harm the developing fetus.
What are Teratogens?
400
This is the name of the sleeping position that pediatricians recommend placing your child in (technical name)to help prevent SIDS.
What is the Supine position?
400
This is the process of adjusting our current understanding of the world and modifying it.
What is accommodation?
400
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?
400
An ambiguous situation that requires a person to make a moral decision.
What is a Moral Dilemma?
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
Another name for the test to determine whether or not children can identify that the liquid that has been poured into a taller glass did not change amount just it's shape.
What are the conservation tests?
500
For people in this level of Kohlberg's Moral Development stage theory what makes something right or wrong is based on LAWS and RULES of a society.
What is Level 2 - CONVENTIONAL Morality
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