Emotional Development
A smile evoked by a human face as early as 6 weeks after birth
The period of life between 18 and 25.
What is emerging adulthood?
The period of rapid growth and sexual development that begins in adolescence.
What is Puberty?
The internal dialogue that occurs when a person is talking to themselves.
What is private speech?
An infant's distress when a familiar caregiver leaves. Most obvious between 9 and 14 months
What is separation anxiety
The capacity of organs to allow the body to cope with stress.
What is organ reserve?
A hormone that affects the appetite and is believed to affect the onset of puberty. peaks around the age of 12.
What is leptin?
Human interaction that expands and advances understanding, often through words that one person uses to explain something to another.
What is social mediation?
An infant's expression of concern, a look of fear or quiet stare while clinging to someone familiar.
What is stranger awareness?
The adjustment of all of the body's systems to keep physiological functions in a state of equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
A person's idea of how his or her body should look.
What is body image?
The cognitive ability to organize and prioritize the many thoughts that arise from various parts of the brain.
What is executive function?
A person's realization that he or she is a distinct individual whose mind, body, and actions are separate from other people's
What is self-awareness?
A dynamic body adjustment, related, to homeostasis that affects overall physiology over time.
What is allostasis?
eating too much in a short period of time, to the point of feeling overfull or in pain.
What is binge eating disorder?
A person's theory of what other people might be thinking.
What is theory of mind?
A person's typical response to the environment.
What is temperament?
A proposed adult stage of cognitive development, following Piaget's four stages, that goes beyond adolescent thinking by being more practical etc.
What is postformal thought?
Any erotic activity that arouses an adult and excites, shames or confuses a child whether or not the victim protests and whether or not genital contact is involved.
What is child sexual abuse?
The speedy and sometimes imprecise way in which children learn new words by tentatively placing then in mental categories according to their perceived meaning.
What is fast-mapping?