This debate argues the influence of heredity and experience.
NATURE VS NURTURE
100
Newborns are born with this, which causes them to open their mouths and search for a nipple when something touches their cheek.
ROOTING REFLEX
100
A preschooler who has trouble taking another person’s perspective (ex: they stand in the way of the tv) is demonstrating this developmental phenomenon.
EGOCENTRISM
100
This is the beginning of adolescence.
PUBERTY
100
Erikson’s psychosocial stage for late adulthood says that adults will feel either a sense of ___________ or despair.
INTEGRITY
200
A psychologist who argues that development happens gradually would be on the _______ side of the _______ vs _______ debate.
CONTINUITY, CONTINUITY VS STAGES
200
Because our neural networks haven’t formed yet, people can’t remember much from before this age.
3 YEARS OLD
200
This is the principle that a quantity remains the same, even if you change its shape or the container its in.
CONSERVATION
200
Kohlberg’s dilemmas, such as the Heinz dilemma, were intended to examine people’s _________ thinking.
MORAL
200
One’s accumulated knowledge (such as vocabulary) is called __________ intelligence.
CRYSTALLIZED
300
Someone wondering the extent to which our traits persist as we age would be considering this debate.
STABILITY VS CHANGE
300
Infants prefer to look at images that resemble __________.
HUMAN FACES
300
All children (starting from babyhood through adulthood) use this type of concept to make sense of the world, assimilating and accommodating as they experience new things.
SCHEMAS
300
Adolescents tend to try out different “selves” in an attempt to form and solidify this.
IDENTITY
300
The ability to reason quickly and abstractly is called ___________ intelligence.
FLUID
400
This parenting style involves setting strict rules with discussion and the possibility of exceptions.
AUTHORITATIVE
400
According to Piaget, babies in the first 2 years of life haven’t met this milestone, which is why peek-a-boo is so entertaining.
OBJECT PERMANENCE
400
Because neural connections get pruned (cut out, lost) when we don’t use them, a child’s ability to master a ____________ is greatest before they hit adolescence.
LANGUAGE
400
The marshmallow experiment tested little kids’ ability to “delay gratification.” In later years, the kids who had demonstrated this skill of __________ were more successful in their academic and social abilities.
SELF-DISCIPLINE
400
The average adult makes this many job changes throughout their career.
12
500
This parenting style is undemanding but supportive (and likely to result in spoiled, entitled children).
PERMISSIVE
500
Psychologists believed that babies formed attachments to caregivers who fed them. Harlow’s experiments showed that monkeys developed attachments to fake monkeys who provided _______, rather than food.
COMFORT
500
A child who is able to follow an “If this, then that” statement to deduce the consequence is capable of this skill.
ABSTRACT LOGIC or ABSTRACT REASONING
500
Adolescence ends with _____________ status.
INDEPENDENT ADULT
500
This is the term for the preferred timeline of events like marriage and parenthood.