Social and Personality Development
Erikson characterized personality development in infancy as this stage
What is trust vs. mistrust?
refers to the unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant, often while sleeping, during the first months of life. Although it strikes only about 1 in 1,000 U.S. babies, it is still impacting a great deal of Americans.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
the inability to understand that other people have different points of view.
What is egocentrism?
This is the time in a person's life when an adolescent goes through a biological event
What is puberty?
the difference between what children can do by themselves and their levels of “potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers”
What is the zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
By classifying parents on these two dimensions — being caring and child-centered, and giving “structure” — Baumrind (1971) spelled out this
What are parenting styles?
This is the period of time when an adolescent is in search of their identity according to Erikson.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
The phase of sleep involving rapid eye movements, when the EEG looks almost like it does during waking
What is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep?
The word sounds of language
What are phonemes?
refers to any skill related to managing and decoding people’s emotions, and getting along with other human beings. One hallmark of being human is that we are always making inferences about people’s feelings and goals, based on their actions.
What is social cognition?
This psychologist created what he believed to be the three stages of moral development to determine how people acquire their moral values.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
refers to self-generated actions, activities that arise from our inner desires.
a basic criterion for a test’s accuracy, meaning scores must be fairly similar when a person takes the same test more than once.
What is reliability?
According to Erikson, this stage of a person's life is when they will seek out many new skills and actions where they will fall, spill and often mess up the end goal and it is very important for the parent to encourage them.
What the stage of Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt?
the term psychologists use for the skills involved in controlling our emotions so that they don’t get in the way of a productive life.
What is emotional regulation?
the term developmentalists use to describe these remarkable, global caring demonstrations, as well as the personal acts of helping, sharing, and caring that we perform during daily life.
What are prosocial behaviors?