Piaget's Stages
This is Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development, from birth to ~2 years.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This type of infant-directed speech helps babies learn language.
What is motherese?
A strong, enduring emotional bond between infant and caregiver.
What is attachment?
Preschoolers are in this Piagetian stage of development.
What is preoperational?
This type of anxiety appears around 6–9 months when infants encounter strangers.
What is stranger anxiety?
During this substage, infants repeat actions that produce interesting results.
What are circular reactions? (Primary, secondary, tertiary)
Infants begin showing goal-directed behavior in this substage of the sensorimotor period (HINT: a type of reaction).
What is a secondary circular reaction?
Separation distress shown when a caregiver leaves is called this.
What is separation anxiety?
This term describes a child’s inability to take another person’s perspective.
What is egocentrism?
Avoidant, resistant, and disorganized are all types of this observed in the Strange Situation.
What are attachment styles?
The understanding that objects exist even when out of sight is called this.
What is object permanence?
The process of fitting new experiences into existing schemas is called this.
What is assimilation?
Mary Ainsworth developed this assessment to classify attachment styles.
What is the Strange Situation?
Preschoolers fail this task if they cannot understand that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
This person developed the Strange Situation and came up with different attachment styles.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
Piaget said infants develop this type of mental “blueprints” for understanding the world.
What are schemas?
Memory in infants improves mostly due to growth in this. (HINT: Don't let this trip you up! This is a very easy answer that you will get mad at yourself about if you get wrong!)
What is the brain?
This attachment style is linked to responsive, consistent caregiving.
What is a secure attachment?
The ability to understand that other people can have thoughts, beliefs, and desires different from one’s own.
What is theory of mind?
This type of attachment is characterized by children who both seek closeness and resist contact with the caregiver.
What is ambivalent attachment?
Adjusting existing schemas to fit new information is called this.
What is accommodation?
The ability to remember and imitate actions after a delay, first seen around 6–9 months, is called this.
What is deferred imitation?
There are three main temperaments: easy, difficult, and this one.
What is slow-to-warm?
This is the preschooler’s tendency to focus on only one aspect of a situation at a time.
What is centration?
When infants are distressed but cannot be easily comforted, or show contradictory behaviors, they are displaying this attachment style.
What is disorganized attachment?