Let's Get Physical
A newborn’s ability to hold tightly onto an object.
What is the grasping reflex?
Following group norms or customs.
What is conformity?
A permanent learning process that occurs in some animals shortly after birth
What is imprinting?
A key term from Piaget for a conceptual framework that we all create.
What is schema?
In Kohlberg’s lowest stage of moral development, understanding of right or wrong depends on this
What is whether one receives punishment?
A newborn’s response to a touch near the mouth
What is the rooting reflex?
Teaching the lessons learned in life to a younger generation.
What is generativity?
Harry Harlow found that young rhesus monkeys prefer a surrogate mother who can provide this.
What is contact comfort?
This type of intelligence declines as the nervous system declines
A: What is fluid intelligence?
Type of speech in which words are omitted, but the meaning is clear
What is telegraphic speech?
Uneven growth during physical maturation
What is asynchrony?
An exclusive group that exists within a larger group
What is a clique?
Unlike unhappy couples, happy couples tend to do this.
What is focus on solving problems when they argue?
According to this principle, a given quantity remains the same even if the size and shape of the container changes.
What is conservation?
A place that cares for the needs of the dying
What is hospice?
The biological end to childhood.
What is puberty?
Children who are confident and able to make their own decisions likely experienced this parenting style.
What is democratic / authoritative?
According to Bem, the four patterns of attachment that children may develop with their primary caregiver.
A: What are secure, avoidant, resistant and disorganized?
Fitting new objects and experiences into one’s existing schemas.
What is assimilation?
This controversial debate concerns the relative contributions of genetics and environment to human development.
What is the nature-nurture debate?
The biological event at which a woman stops ovulating.
What is menopause?
The first psychologist to study adolescence as a distinct and separate stage of development described it as a period of "Storm and Stress".
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
According to Kübler-Ross, psychological adjustment to one’s impending death goes through these five stages
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?
Type of thought that indicates that children can form a mental image of an object.
What is representational thought/object permanence?
The study of dying and death.
What is thanatology?