Cognitive, Emotional, social Development
The ability to modify or control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words
What is emotional self-regulation?
The transition between childhood and adulthood
What is adolescence?
This type of research design permits inferences on cause and effect
What is an experimental design?
This theorist specialized in behaviorism and social learning theory, he was known as the founder
Who is John Watson?
The ability to focus and pay attention, remember instructions, and demonstrate self-control.
What is executive functioning?
This theory of development is organized by schemes, or mental representations
What is cognitive development?
This involves three stages, the germinal period, the embryonic stage, and the period of the fetus
What is prenatal development?
This type of research is how information is gained through listening and watching children, split into two categories.
What is systematic observation?
This theorist developed the psychosocial theory that focuses on development across the entire lifespan
Who is Erikson?
A child’s ability to seamlessly shift between activities and use different problem-solving approaches.
What is flexible shifting?
infants use displays of an adult to regulate their behaviors toward objects, persons, and situations
What is social referencing?
the first stage of Piaget's stages of development from 2-4 years old where there are representations made, but not yet operations
What is the preoperational stage of development?
In this type of research, researchers randomly assign participants to treatment conditions in natural settings.
What is a field experiment?
This theorist suggested the importance of being able to mentally represent the world, striving for adaptation as the goal motivated by equilibration
Who is Jean Piaget?
It is an executive function that gives the child the ability to think through their actions and stop themselves before making a poor decision
What is Inhibition?
The conscious long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world
What is semantic memory?
This stage of development is when the highest levels on REM sleep occur
What is the fetal period?
A scientist was interested in the prevalence of smoking in young adults. To study this he recruited people ages 16, 18, and 20 and had them complete a survey to see if they smoked. What kind of research method is used here?
What is a cross-sectional design?
This theorist suggested that the sociocultural theory that skills are learned through social interaction and that this social interaction drives cognitive skills
Who is Vygotsky?
the understanding that people don't have the same thoughts and feelings you do
What is theory of mind?
Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory the circular reaction initially centers on what
What is the infant's own body?
In this stage, infants and toddlers think with their eyes, hands, and ears
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Without manipulating variables a researcher wanted to study the relationship between the amount of exercise people engage in and their level of stress. What type of research design can be used here
What is a correlational design?
This theorist suggested the ecological systems theory, dealing with the influence of social environments on human development.
Who is Bronfrebrenner?
rehearsal, organization, elaboration
What are memory stages?