People
This man is known for his 4 stages of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget
The orderly sequence of growth by which a person develops over time, both physically and mentally.
Maturation
In this final stage, abstract reasoning develops and thought is more idealistic from ages 12 to adulthood.
Formal Operational
An emotional tie with other people.
Attachment
This a strict parenting style in which the parent can be cold, rejecting, and has high expectations for their child.
Authoritarian
This married duo are known for their experiment with baby monkeys and forming attachments.
Harry & Margaret Harlow
The thinking that occurs as we consider right from wrong.
Moral Reasoning
In this stage, babies learn about the world through their senses and motor activities.
Sensorimotor
A healthy attachment style in which individuals feel safe, comforted, and supported.
Secure Attachment
This parenting style is characterized by lack of responsiveness and shows little love or warmth to the child.
Uninvolved
This man proposed the Cupboard Theory and stated that infants become attached to those who provide the food supply.
Sigmund Freud
The sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy that is formed during infancy.
Basic Trust
In this stage, children ages 6/7 to 11 can think logically about concrete events and perform arithmetic operations.
Concrete Operational
Stranger Anxiety
This parenting style is characterized as warm, attentive, and sensitive to a child's needs.
Authoritative
This man proposed 8 psychosocial stages of life.
Erik Erikson
The lacking of awareness that things continue to exist even when not seen.
Object Permanence
Imaginative play and the use of language from ages 2-6/7 are characteristics of this stage.
Preoperational
Process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
Imprinting
This parenting style is characterized by low expectations and seeming more like a friend than a parent to a child.
Permissive
This man sought to describe the development of moral reasoning.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.
Assimilation
This term describes the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view.
Egocentrism
A period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain experiences produce proper development.
Critical Period
Parents who are have this style of parenting tend to have confident, enthusiastic, and overall happier children.
Authoritative