Child Development Basics
How children grow and what their bodies can do
What is Physical Development
This person is focused on cognitive skills based on maturity
Who is Jean Piaget
Generativity vs Stagnation occurs in this stage
What is adolescence
dogs do this to search for food, and so do babies
What is the rooting reflex
This chemical produces feelings of pleasure
What is Dopamine
Children's abilities to form feelings about themselves and others
What is Cognitive Development
This person is focused on body parts related to stages of development
Who is Freud
Conflict for preschool age
What is initiative vs guilt
What is the Palmar Grasp
This causes the gray matter of the brain, or the cortex, to become thinner but more efficient
the improvement of relationships, emotional regulations, and interact with others
What is Social Development
This person Studied the effects of the levels of environment on development
Who is Urie Brofenbrenner
this type of play helps us to solidify new schemas
What is Pretend Play
when infants spread out and then quickly contract limbs
What is the Moro Reflex
this process results in improvements of memory functioning
What is myelination
learning about feelings, why they occur, how to manage them, and understand others feelings
What is Emotional Development
This person studied the results of our choices on our identities
Who is James Marcia
Rearranging matter does not change the quantity
What is conservation?
looks like a "fencers pose"
What is Tonic Neck
Spatial, Kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and linguistic
What are examples of multiple intelligence?
the 5 development periods
What is Prenatal Development, Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle childhood, Adolescence
This person used a strange situation to assess the relationship between parent and baby
Who is Mary Ainsworth
This process involves assessing how others perceived us and using these interpretations to judge ourselves
A Gymnast, or when the sole of an infant is rubbed from heel to toe
What is the Babinski Reflex
This type of memory only lasts for a few seconds
What is working memory?