Parenting & Attachment
This parenting style is warm and responsive, yet sets clear boundaries.
What is authoritative parenting?
This Piaget stage is from birth to 2 years and involves learning through senses and actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This Eriksonian stage involves learning to work hard and gain competence.
What is industry vs. inferiority?
This form of egocentrism involves feeling like everyone is watching you.
What is imaginary audience?
This type of memory refers to general world knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
This method is used to assess a child’s attachment by observing separations and reunions.
What is the Strange Situation?
This stage is characterized by symbolic thought, egocentrism, and animism.
What is the preoperational stage?
This concept helps children connect their actions to others’ emotions.
What is induction?
This identity status involves active exploration without commitment.
What is moratorium?
This learning type occurs through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
This attachment type is characterized by distress when the caregiver leaves and comfort upon return.
What is secure attachment?
This is the understanding that an object can return to its original state after change.
What is reversibility?
This refers to a child's ability to understand others have thoughts and feelings.
What is theory of mind?
This belief involves feeling unique and invincible.
What is the personal fable?
This concept involves matching mate preferences to one's own traits.
What is homogamy?
This concept means understanding objects still exist even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
This term describes when children use grammar rules too broadly (e.g., 'mouses').
What is overregulation?
This Kohlberg stage is based on avoiding punishment and seeking rewards.
What is preconventional moral reasoning?
These factors—gender, diet, stress, and ethnicity—are predictors of this biological event.
What is puberty timing?
This type of intelligence involves reasoning and problem-solving.
What is fluid intelligence?
This term refers to the support gradually removed as a child gains skills.
What is scaffolding?
This is the Vygotskian term for tasks a child can do with help but not alone.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
This Kohlberg stage is based on personal moral principles.
What is postconventional moral reasoning?
This identity status means a person has explored and committed to a sense of self.
What is identity achievement?
This is a legal document indicating end-of-life medical preferences.
What is a living will?