Cognitive Development
The final/last stage in Piaget's model of cognitive development.
What is the formal operational stage?
The type of parenting style displayed by Mufasa, Simba's father, in the Lion King.
What is authoritative parenting?
Our immediate, gut-level judgements about what is right or wrong, usually in contrast to logical reasoning.
What is (moral) intuition?
The ability to comprehend language, as demonstrated by listening or reading skills.
What is receptive language?
Taking away a child's phone is an example of this type of operant conditioning.
What is negative punishment?
The first/earliest stage in Piaget's model of cognitive development.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
What is permissive parenting?
This type of task is used to evaluate the development of a child's Theory of Mind.
What is a false-belief task?
A cognitive phenomenon where generating a verbal description of a previously witnessed visual stimulus impairs subsequent recognition of that stimulus.
What is verbal overshadowing?
An annoyingly loud alarm clock is an example of this type of operant conditioning.
What is negative reinforcement?
This defining mark of the preoperational stage refers to the inability to think from the perspective of others
What is egocentrism?
Harry Harlow conducted studies with this animal to demonstrate the importance of comfort contact.
What are (rhesus) monkeys?
This concept, developed by Erik Erikson, refers to the struggle, uncertainty, and instability that many adolescents experience regarding their identity.
What is role confusion?
The theory that the particular language we speak influences our thought processes and perception of reality.
What is linguistic relativism?
The initially neutral stimulus in Pavlov's dog experiments.
What is the sound of a bell?
The cognitive ability to understand that an object's quantity and mass remain the same even if it changes shape or appearance.
What is conservation?
The name of the procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth to assess children's attachment styles.
What is the Strange Situation?
What is 18 months (+ 3 months)?
The ability to embed linguistic structures within one another, as with the sentence: I thought that I knew what you meant when you said that you thought that you knew what I meant.
What is recursion?
The diminishing or disappearance of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus repeatedly fails to follow a conditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
This type of developmental model proposes that growth occurs in distinct, non-overlapping stages.
What is a discontinuous model of development?
The THREE subtypes of insecure attachment.
What are insecure-resistant/ambivalent, -avoidant, and -disorganized attachment?
The THREE stages in Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
What are pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality?
Also known as nonfluent aphasia, a language disorder characterized by slow and labored speech in which understanding is intact, but expression is impaired.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
When a response that has been associated with one stimulus occurs for another stimulus that is similar, as when Little Albert demonstrated a fear of other small animals in addition to white rats after conditioning.
What is stimulus generalization?