General Development
These are the three main types of human development.
What are physical, socioemotional, and cognitive?
This theorist has eight stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Alcohol during pregnancy can result in these disorders.
What are Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders?
This part of the brain is fully developed around the age of 25 years old.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This type of attachment style is when a parent meets the child's needs. The child grows up to have positive views on relationships and is comfortable with intimacy.
What is secure attachment?
This disorder is a learning disorder that impacts reading ability, including problems with word recognition, decoding, and spelling.
What is dyslexia?
These types of changes alter the overall quality of a process of function.
What are qualitative changes?
This theorist is known for proposing the id, ego, and superego idea.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A baby born before the gestational age of 37 weeks is known as this.
What is premature or preterm?
This type of intelligence allows us to solve novel problems for which we have little training and is measured both by how effectively we solve the problems and by how quickly we solved them.
What is fluid intelligence?
This diagnosis includes a range of symptoms that can vary greatly in severity from one child to the next but is characterized by pervasive impairment in social communication and interaction and restricted or repetitive behaviors, interests, or activities.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Phonology can be defined as this.
What is the sound system of a language?
This is behaviors, norms, beliefs, and traditions that are shared by a group and can impact one's development.
What is culture?
This theorist's last stage has the age range of 11+.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Babies can understand these before they can use them.
What are words?
This part of the brain can be compared to a guard dog.
What is the amygdala?
This experiment developed by Ed Tronick creates microtears when evaluating a child's social responsiveness from their caregiver.
What is the Still Face Experiment?
The ability to understand words without much information is known as this.
This is our genetic inheritance, not the influence of the environment.
What is nature?
Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development theory has this many stages.
What are six stages?
When a baby is born, this assessment tool is used at 1 minute and again at 5 minutes after birth.
What is the Apgar Scale?
What is 80%?
Those with this diagnosis display a pattern of angry/ irritable mood, argumentative/ defiant behavior or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months as evidenced by other symptomology and is exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who is not a sibling.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
Metalinguistic abilities is when this happens.
What is when children begin to think about language and how to use it?
Getting taller and learning more vocabulary words are these types of changes.
What are quantitative changes?
This theorist does not follow stages, but still has a structured framework.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
Babies demonstrate these types of emotions.
What are basic emotions?
Extrinsic motivation depends on receiving this from the environment.
What is an incentive or reward?
A child who cannot stop crying upon a parent's return after separation can be a sign of these two attachment styles.
What are anxious and disorganized?
Vygotsky postulates two types of speech: speech directed to other people and speech directed to themselves. Speech directed at themselves is known as this.
What is private speech?
This occurs in both children and adolescence, and some may call it selfishness.
What is egocentrism?
James Marcia coined this term when talking about an individual who has not experienced any exploration or crisis, but has made a commitment.
What is identity foreclosure?
This country has one of the highest rates of infant mortality among countries with a similar level of economic well-being (2019).
What is the United States?
These send messages via chemicals called neurotransmitters other nerve cells through extensions of the cells.
What are neurons?
This is an umbrella term that describes a group of brain-based disorders that affect a person's ability to move and maintain balance and posture.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
This is the appropriate use of language in different contexts.
What is pragmatics?
This type of attention occurs when one is tuning in to certain things while tuning out others.
What is selective attention?
Little Albert was a part of this theorist's experiment.
Who is John B. Watson?
This infection is caused by a parasite that can be present in cat feces, cat litter, or ground soil.
What is toxoplasmosis?
After a period of rapid increase in the number of synaptic connections, the ones that are not used deteriorate and disappear in this process.
What is pruning?
This personality disorder includes criteria that has patterns of poor attachment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Adolescents reach their language development milestones by using complex grammar and this.
What is slang?