Lifespan Psychology
This term describes changes across conception to death in biological, cognitive, social, and emotional areas.
What is lifespan psychology?
In this stage (0–2 years), infants develop object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Infants in the first stage face the crisis of trust vs this.
What is mistrust?
This theorist emphasized the role of social interaction in learning.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
The view that development occurs gradually and continuously.
What is continuous development?
Pre-operational children often show this thinking error where they can’t see others’ perspectives.
What is egocentrism?
In early childhood (3–5 years), children face initiative vs this.
What is guilt?
Vygotsky’s theory is known as this.
What is the sociocultural theory?
The long-standing debate in psychology about genetics vs environment.
What is nature vs nurture?
Understanding that quantity stays the same even if appearance changes is called this.
What is conservation?
The adolescent crisis in Erikson’s theory is identity vs this.
What is role confusion?
The gap between what a learner can do alone and what they can do with help is called this.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
This model explains development as the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
The ability to organise objects into groups based on features, developed in the concrete operational stage.
What is classification?
Adults in midlife must balance generativity vs this.
What is stagnation?
According to Vygotsky, the best learning happens when tasks are not too easy, but just beyond this.
According to Vygotsky, the best learning happens when tasks are not too easy, but just beyond this.