Growth & Development Basics
This term refers to an increase in physical size.
What is growth?
This theorist made many important contributions to understanding personality development, including personality, levels of awareness, and psychosexual stages of development.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Birth to 18 months focuses on this developmental conflict.
What is trust vs mistrust?
This is the term used when Piaget is referring to a pattern consisting of a number of organized ideas that grow with a child's experiences.
What is schema?
The most basic level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is this.
What are physiologic needs?
This term refers to the acquisition of skills and functions.
What is development?
In Freud's psychoanalytical theory, this is known as the "executive of the mind", closely related to reality.
What is ego?
What is shame and/or doubt?
This is the term used in Piaget's sensorimotor stage, where children are limited to what they can see, hear, or touch.
What is object permanence?
Maslow described human behavior as being motivated by needs that are ordered in a ___________.
What is hierarchy?
Growth that begins at the head and progresses toward the feet is known as this.
What is cephalocaudal development?
Freud describes this defense mechanism as a way individuals take on the personality traits of another person, usually one held in high esteem.
What is identification?
What is industry versus inferiority?
This is the concept where new experiences do not fit or cannot be assimilated into existing schemas.
What is accommodation?
A child's need to feel secure and free from danger is met with this level of Maslow's Hierarchy?
What is safety?
This term is used to describe the behavior patterns that distinguish one person from another.
What is personality?
In Freud's Stages of Psychosocial development, this stage is described by the mouth being the source of all comfort.
What is the oral stage?
This is the term used for individuals unconcerned with the welfare of others and are preoccupied with themselves (age 30-65).
What is stagnation?
This stage of Piaget's cognitive theory can be demonstrated with a child's mastery of language.
What is the preoperational stage?
This feeling is described as acceptance by another person, based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What is belonging?
These are techniques used in all stages of life to help an individual cope with the threat of anxiety.
What are defense mechanisms?
These are Freud's three levels of awareness.
What is conscious, subconscious, and unconscious?
This is the term Erikson uses to describe when people reach a level where they can accept past choices as the best they could accomplish at the time.
What is ego integrity?
The stage in which adolescents think logically and hypothetically.
What is the formal operational stage?
This is the description of Maslow's highest need of self-actualization.
What is "meeting one's fullest potential?"