Cog Dev
This theory describes how babies develop into children who can think scientifically and characterizes children as constructing their own knowledge.
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
(Constructivism)
This researcher tested the psychoanalytic and behaviorist idea that attachment is created in the context of feeding.
Who is Harry Harlow?
Piaget's simple hiding task and the A not B search task were designed to demonstrate this concept.
What is object permanence?
The thinking of children in this stage of Piaget's theory is characterized by mental representations and activity related to mental representations but lacks thinking according to logical rules.
Preoperational Stage
This is the most common pattern of attachment.
What is secure attachment?
This research design involves researchers studying the same people over time.
What is longitudinal?
When a parent helps a child to learn how to ride a bike by first showing how to do it, then, putting on training wheels, then taking those off, then helping them balance, and then gradually letting the child ride the bike on their own, the parent is demonstrating this feature of guided participaton.
What is scaffolding?
This theorist argued that attachment is a product of evolution that promotes the survival of the infant.
Who is John Bowlby?
This method of studying what babies understand about objects involves showing them magic show - like events.
What is violations-of-expectations or habituation/dishabituation.
This theory of cognitive development states that babies come into the world with innate, domain-specific knowledge systems that help them make sense of the world.
What is Core Knowledge.
Adults in romantic relationships who are worried about their partner leaving them and feel that others don't want to get as close to them as they would like likely have this kind of attachment pattern in that relationship.
What is anxious or preoccupied? (similar to the resistant pattern in Ainsworth's categorization)
This is a way to measure attachment developed by Mary Ainsworth.
What is the Strange Situation?
In Piaget's theory, the process of building schemes through direct interaction with the environment. Consists of assimilation and accommodation.
What is adaptation?
These are two factors that contribute to secure attachment in babies.
What are the presence of a caregiver and sensitivity of caregiving?
Other factors: infant characteristics, family circumstances, caregivers' internal working models
Dr. Gopnik's research comparing the performance of 14 month olds and 18 month olds on the broccoli and crackers task is an example of this kind of GENERAL research design.
What is quasi-experimental?