Parenting
This parenting style is high in responsiveness but low in demandingness, often treating the child more like a friend than a parent.
What is permissive parenting?
Children with this attachment style use their caregiver as a safe base to explore, show distress when separated, and are easily comforted upon their return.
What is secure attachment?
This concept describes an infant's understanding that an object still exists even when it is hidden from view.
What is object permanence?
This type of intelligence—encompassing vocabulary, general knowledge, and cumulative experience—remains stable or increases with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?
This personality test divides people into 16 personalities. Ms. Hayes' group is called ENFJ
What is the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator?
Characterized by strict rules, high expectations, and low warmth, this style operates on a "because I said so" philosophy.
What is authoritarian parenting?
Infants with this style show little preference between a parent and a stranger, often maintaining independence and avoiding closeness upon reunion.
What is avoidant (or anxious-avoidant) attachment?
A child who realizes that pouring liquid into a taller, thinner glass doesn't change the total volume has mastered this Piagetian principle.
What is conservation?
Unlike crystallized intelligence, this type of intelligence—responsible for abstract reasoning, problem-solving speed, and working memory—tends to decline starting in early adulthood.
What is fluid intelligence?
This term refers to the genetic influences on your personality.
What is nature?
Often considered the most balanced approach, this style combines high warmth and open communication with firm, clear boundaries.
What is authoritative parenting?
This attachment pattern is marked by intense distress upon separation and a mixture of seeking proximity and pushing the caregiver away upon reunion.
What is anxious-resistant attachment?
This cognitive skill, emerging around age two, allows children to use words, mental images, and pretend play to symbolize objects and events.
What is representational thought (or symbolic thought)?
Structural changes in aging brains often include a reduction in this brain tissue responsible for signal transmission between brain regions.
What is white matter or myelin?
This personality test divides people into four groups based on peoples' strengths and interests.
What is the True Colors test?
Children raised by parents with this style often exhibit the worst developmental outcomes, including low self-esteem and emotional withdrawal due to lack of emotional connection and supervision.
What is uninvolved (or neglectful) parenting?
Characterized by confusion, dazed facial expressions, or contradictory behaviors toward caregivers, this pattern is often associated with trauma or fear of the parent.
What is disorganized attachment?
Discovered in 1970, this famous feral child missed the "critical period" for language acquisition, demonstrating severe limits in natural syntax development.
Who is Genie?
This is the name of the connection between neurons.
What is a synapse?
This term refers to the influences on your personality such as friends, social media, school, etc.
What is socialization?
Children raised with this style may end up being very shy and obedient or very rebellious
What is authoritarian parenting?
This experimental procedure developed by Mary Ainsworth systematically exposes infants to short separations and reunions with their primary caregiver to observe their attachment style.
What was the Strange Situation?
Piaget noted that children in the preoperational stage struggle to see situations from another person's perspective, a limitation known by this term.
What is Theory of Mind or Egocentrism?
This brain structure, vital for forming new declarative memories, experiences significant volume loss (atrophy) in normal aging and severe damage in Alzheimer's.
What is the hippocampus?
This method of experimentation is the best way to assess Nature vs. Nurture.