Developmental Psychology
These are agents such as chemicals/viruses that can reach the fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Teratogens
The Developmental Psychologist associated with the Theory of Cognitive Development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The Developmental psychologists who developed the theory regarding moral development.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
Our physical abilities--muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness, and cardiac output--reach their height by this age range.
Mid 20s
This stage (crisis) of psychosocial development is marked by whether or not an infant's needs are adequately met by its caregivers
What is trust vs. mistrust?
Process of adjusting old schemas or developing new ones to incorporate new information.
Accommodation
The stage of Piaget's theory that include an egocentric viewpoint and animism.
What is the preoperational stage?
The 3 main phases of Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
What are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional?
This stage of prenatal development lasts from 2 weeks until the end of the second month
What is the embryonic stage?
Infant's understanding that objects or people continue to exist even when they cannot be directly seen, heard, or touched.
Object permanence
The stage demonstrated by abstract thinking and metacognition.
What is formal operational?
Erikson's theory that individuals pass through eight developmental stages, each involving a crisis that must be successfully resolved.
Psychosocial Stages
The three steps of the developing baby in order.
zygote, embryo, fetus
This stage (crisis) of psychosocial development is marked by reflection on one's life
What is integrity vs. despair?
Parents set few rules, make minimal demands, and allow their children to reach their own conclusions.
Permissive Parenting
The term for the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and to others? (The understanding that people have different beliefs, thoughts, intentions, etc. than your own.)
What is theory of mind? ToM. In the Concrete Stage!
Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Schema
Risky adolescent behavior may be explained by the immaturity of this part of the brain
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The Psychological conflict ("tension") in Erikson's theory for young adults. General experience of when they are looking to commit to something or someone.
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
Parents set firm rules, make reasonable demands, and listen to their child's viewpoint while still insisting on responsible behavior.
Authoritative
Name all four of Piaget's stages in order.
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
The Developmental Psychologist associated with the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This type of memory is most vulnerable to age-related memory loss
What is episodic memory?