Prenatal Development
Any environmental agent (biological, chemical, or physical) that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus.
What is a Teratogen?
This type of psychology involves the scientific study of lifelong development, or how you change and how you remain the same over the course of your life.
What is developmental psychology?
Known for his psychosocial theory.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Refers to all mental activities associated with thinking and knowing.
What is cognition?
Parental presence that gives the child a sense of safety as he explores his surroundings.
What is a secure base?
Research has found this is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability (ID) in children in the U.S.
What is Alcohol?
Growth and changes in the body and brain, senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.
What is physical development?
Erikson's psychosocial development has this number of stages.
What are 8 stages?
He said cognitive development occurs in 4 major discontinuous stages.
Who is Piaget?
Attributing lifelike qualities to an inanimate object.
What is animistic thinking?
Small head size, abnormal facial features, significantly lower IQ scores, and learning issues are all signs of this.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity development.
What is cognitive development?
Erik Erikson based his theory of psychosocial on his belief that social interactions affect this.
What is our sense of self (ego identity)?
Piaget belived the way we learn about our world is through the construction of this.
What are schemas?
Defined attachment as the affectional bond/tie that an infant forms with the mother.
What is Bowlby’s Attachment Theory?
Having this during pregnancy increases your risk of CRS, and it may cause a baby to be born with one or more birth defects.
What is Rubella?
Emotions, personality, and social relationships development.
What is psychosocial development?
This is one of the main psychosocial milestones of infancy.
What is forming healthy attachments?
Throughout development, we modify or change our schemas due to our experiences through these two major processes.
What is assimilation and accommodation?
Refers to the realization that objects (or people) continue to exist even though they are no longer visible or detectable through other senses.
What is object permanence?
Both of these factors clearly affect prenatal development, as evidenced by the impact of teratogens.
What are genetic and environmental factors?
A development process where changes occur in minute steps, where a transition is not noticeable. Changes also appear quantitative in nature.
What is the continuous development process?
In Harlow's experiment with Rhesus monkeys, he had 2 types of surrogate "mothers". The baby monkeys preferred this type of surrogate mom over the other type because this “mom” provided warmth and security.
What is are cloth surrogate mom?
In Piaget's stages of cognitive development, abstract thinking and reasoning are possible at this level.
What is the formal operations level?
Adjusting the organism’s schema to fit new environmental experiences.
What is accommodation?