Erikson's Soap Opera
This stage during infancy is when the child develops a sensation of trust in caregivers or mistrust based on the quality of caregiving.
What is Trust vs Mistrust?
In the sensorimotor stage, babies are amazed by peekaboo because they haven’t developed this skill yet—out of sight, out of mind!
What is object permanence?
In this type of attachment, babies feel secure knowing their caregiver is a consistent source of love and snacks.
What is secure attachment?
In this stage, toddlers wrestle with shame or develop autonomy while discovering the power of the word "NO".
What is Autonomy vs Shame?
During the preoperational stage, kids struggle to understand that a taller glass doesn’t magically have more juice.
What is conservation?
This attachment style develops when caregivers are inconsistent—sometimes attentive, sometimes distracted—leaving babies feeling clingy and confused.
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Identity vs Confusion has this virtue.
What is Fidelity?
In this stage, kids start thinking logically about concrete objects, but abstract algebra is still a no-go—so no calculus just yet!
What is the concrete operational stage?
This researcher famously studied attachment using baby monkeys and surrogate mothers—one wire, one cuddly—and proved that comfort matters.
Who is Harry Harlow?
In early adulthood all people want is ____
What is Intimacy?
When teens reach the formal operational stage, they can finally start pondering big questions like ‘What if we lived in a world with no gravity?’ or ‘Why didn’t I study for this test?’
What is hypothetical reasoning?
Mary Ainsworth created this experiment, where babies were left with a stranger to test their attachment style. It’s like speed dating for toddlers.
What is the Strange Situation?
In this stage, adults assess and make sense of their lives and the contributions they made in life.
What is Integrity vs Despair
Kids in the preoperational stage often fail to understand that changing an object’s shape doesn’t change its amount. Piaget called this type of thinking what?
What is centration?
In Bowlby’s attachment theory, this term describes the internalized template we use to understand relationships—kind of like a mental 'how-to' guide for love.
What is an internal working model?