The best time for someone to learn a skill
What is a critical period?
Incorporating new info into existing schema
What is assimilation?
The patterns of emotional reactions in babies
What is temperament?
The shared system of symbols
What is language?
A thing that now brings about a response
What is a conditioned stimulus?
The natural course of development
What is maturation?
When babies think objects are gone because they don’t see them anymore
What is object permanence?
A parenting style centered around rules and obedience
What is authoritarian?
The stage of producing vowels sounds
What is the cooing stage
When you get used to a regular stimulus and stop responding
What is habituation?
Something that levels off in adulthood
What is mobility, flexibility, reaction time, visual / auditory acuity, or fertility?
The inability to distinguish one’s own perspective from another’s (Double Jeapordy!)
What is egocentric?
The expected behaviors for men/women due to cultural influence
What are gender roles?
The rules for combining words into sentences (Double Jeapordy!)
What is syntax?
When you add something bad to decrease a behavior
What is positive punishment?
A girls first period (Double Jeapordy!)
What is a menarche?
The stage where you use operational thinking, classification, and thinking logically.
What is the concrete operational stage?
The developmental stage where you refine a sense of self by testing roles and forming an identity
What is identity vs. role confusion?
The two word stage
What is telegraphic stage?
Behaviors followed by pos. outcomes are strengthened
What is the Law of Effect?
The reflex where a baby turns its head when their cheek is touched
What is rooting?
The ability to learn new things, reaction times, abstract thinking & quick problem solving
What is fluid intelligence?
The identity theory where you’re actively seeking an identity, mainly without commitment (Double Jeapordy!)
What is moratorium?
The rules that enable us to communicate
What is grammar?
When you can't get a positive response, so you give up (Double Jeapordy!)
What is learned helplessness