Attachment
In first exploring the importance of attachment, Harlow experimented on what type of animal?
Monkeys
According to Piaget, children have a hard time with these - tasks that involve changing the shape of substances to see whether children can go beyond the way that substance visually appears. IE - flattening out playdoh
Conservation tasks
If parents are concerned that their child is meeting various milestones, they can consult this website
CDC
In this age old debate, theorists weigh the balance between a person's genetic and biological influences vs their environment
This is the first stage of pregnancy
The Germinal Stage
The Strange Situation
Early childhood can be difficult time to understand this - the idea that other's have different perspectives from your own
Egocentrism
Teenagers will long for this, though parents may have a difficult time giving it.
Autonomy (also will take freedom or independence)
Erikson
There are three "support structures" supporting the fetus, name two of them.
Amniotic Sac
Placenta
Umbilical cord
In order to explain how babies from the same families might develop different attachment styles, developmentalists determined that infants can have this - a person's characteristic, inborn style of personality.
Temperament
An example would be, "My parents put those mountains there."
Artificialism
This parenting style is high on love/affection but low on boundaries, often creating kids who are confident but struggle in structured environments like school.
Permissive
One of the first in this school of thought, this physician was studying the effects of saliva on digestion by measuring salivation of dogs when exposed to meat but accidentally uncovered something important regarding behavior.
Radiation, lead, and antibotics are all this - a substance that crosses the placenta and could cause harm to the fetus.
A Teratogen
Name Mary Ainsworth's four attachment styles
Secure, Avoidant, Anxious-Ambivalent, Disorganized
Secondary Circular Reactions
Parents might look for several clues that their child is ready to potty train. Name three
Interested in the potty, pretending to use the potty, can wait, asks to use, can stay dry through night or long periods, pull up/down their own pants, etc
Piaget states that all humans process new information by either ____ or _____ , based on whether it matches or clashes with what we already have observed or believe
In the second stage of fetal development, this "tube" develops, which will eventually turn into the spinal cord.
The neural tube
This developmentalist, Ainsworth's teacher, determined that there is no such thing as "excessive motherly love" and that having a primary attachment figure is critical to development.
John Bowlby
Tertiary Circular Reactions
To help develop language skills, parents may use this, commonly referred to as "baby talk"
Infant directed speech
Bronfenbrenner's theory that suggests children are influenced by a layers of exposure to various personal and cultural influences.
Developmental Systems Approach
At the time of birth, the cervix must do two things, equivalent to thinning and stretching
Effacement and dilation