Openers
Physical Development
Social Development
Cognitive Development
Miscellaneous
100
The field in which psychologists study how people grow and change throughout the life span
What is Developmental Psychology?
100
An involuntary reaction or response like swallowing
What is a Reflex?
100
The emotional ties that form between people and keep them together
What is Attachment?
100
His theory of cognitive development said that children develop in a series of stages
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
This is the value or worth that people attach to themselves
What is Self-Esteem?
200
The theory that human development occurs primarily in stages. Development is like climbing a set of stairs to reach the top
What is the Stage Theory?
200
The period from birth to the age of two years
What is Infancy?
200
This causes infants to cry and indicates stress when their mothers leave them
What is Separation Anxiety?
200
This is the understanding that objects exist even when they cannot be seen or touched
What is Object Permanence?
200
This means that parents love and accept their children for who they are - no matter how they behave
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
300
The automatic and sequential process of development that results from genetic signals
What is Maturation?
300
The development of purposeful movement
What is Motor Development?
300

Harry Harlow studied these animals and realized that they have a basic need for contact comfort

What are monkeys?

300

Jean Piaget discovered patterns in children’s thinking called Assimilation and ?

What is Accommodation?

300
This tends to run in families and may be caused by stress, a history, and acceptance of violence as a way of coping with stress
What is Child Abuse?
400

The belief that human behavior is determined by heredity or environment. 

What is the Nature vs Nurture?

400

When babies reflexively fan out their toes when the soles of their feet are touched. 

What is the Babinski Reflex?

400
The process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period
What is Imprinting?
400
The inability to see another person's point of view that is a characteristic of the preoperational stage
What is Egocentrism?
400
Parents that believe in obedience for its own sake. They have strict guidelines that they expect their children to follow without question
What are Authoritarian Parents?
500
A stage or point in development during which a person is best suited to learn a particular skill or behavior pattern
What is a Critical Period?
500
The classic study testing depth perception in infants
What is the Visual Cliff?
500
These are parents that combine warmth with positive kinds of strictness
What are Authoritative Parents?
500
He devised a cognitive theory about the development of children's moral development
Who is Kohlberg?
500
This means that parents show their love and affection only when their children behave in certain acceptable ways
What is conditional positive regard?
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